Website Search Quick Tips and Examples
- Starting your Search
- Choosing Search Terms
- Excluded Characters
- Advanced Searching - Syntax
- What is Included in the Results
Starting your Search
It's easy to search for content on our
website, just type in a few words or phrases that you are
looking for into the search box which appears at the top right
of every page.
Once you have typed in the word or phrase,
click search.
Choosing Search Terms
Entering the right search terms is key to
finding the information you want.
Our search looks for pages and documents
containing as many of these words and phrases you have searched
for as possible.
The results returned are ranked so that
the pages and documents most relevant to your query are
presented first.
Don't worry about missing a page or
document because it doesn't have one of the words in your search
-- our search facility will return relevant results even if they
don't contain all your query terms.
Excluded Characters
Unfortunately we have had to exclude
certain characters from being used in the website search as they
could make our website vulnerable to security attacks. We are
not listing the excluded characters as this could help those
attacking our website.
If you use one of the excluded characters
in your search it is removed and the search is performed using
the rest of the search string provided.
e.g. If # is an exluded character then 'number#1' is changed to 'number1' and then search results for the string 'number1' are provided.
e.g. If # is an exluded character then 'number#1' is changed to 'number1' and then search results for the string 'number1' are provided.
We do not expect that this will effect
many people who use this site however if you have a trouble
finding content because of excluded characters then please
contact us;
- using our website feedback form
- e-mail webmaster@bromyrddin.co.uk
- telephoning 01267 232714
Advanced Searching - Syntax
Our search technology has a simple query
syntax which enables you to enhance the results returned without
having to remember complex queries.
The table below shows examples of the
different techniques you can use to improve your search results.
| Operator | Action | Example |
|---|---|---|
| "term1 term2" | Specifies that words should be adjacent |
This search term returns all
pages/documents where the words 'housing' and
'quality' are adjacent
"housing quality"
|
| +term | Requires a term |
This search term specifies
that 'landlord' must be included in the results
returned.
"Residential +landlord"
|
| -term | Excludes documents containing a term |
This search term returns all
the pages/documents that contain the phrase "housing
quality" but do NOT include the word waiting
"housing quality"
-waiting
|
| title:term | Specifies that the term must be found in the title of the page/document. |
This search term returns all
the pages/documents that contain the term 'waste'
within the page/document title
title:waste
|
| term 1 | term2 | Searches the results of term1 with term2, ranking results by relevance to both term1 and term2. |
This search term searches the
results of a search for 'waste' with the term
'Loughborough'. The results are then ranked by
relevance to both 'waste' and 'Loughborough'
waste | loughborough
|
| term1 || term2 | Searches the results of term1 with term2, ranking results only by relevance to term2. |
This search term searches the
results of a search for 'waste' with the term
'Loughborough'. The results are then ranked by
relevance to 'Loughborough' only
waste || loughborough
|
What is Included in the Results
The search includes
pages/documents from the following:
| Service standards |
| Jobs |
| Press Releases |
The search does not include
pages/documents from the following:
| Meetings & Decisions |