Search Tips

The BusinessSeek.biz Search Engine helps you find documents on this website and related sites. Here's how it works: you tell the search service what you're looking for by typing in keywords, phrases, or questions in the search box. The search service responds by giving you a list of all the Web pages in our index relating to those topics. The most relevant content will appear at the top of your results.

How To Use

1. Type your keywords in the search box.
2. Press the Search button to start your search.

Here's An Example:

1. Search for: Jobs
2. Press the Search button or press the Enter key.
3. The Results page will show you pages relating to Jobs.

Tip: Don't worry if you find a large number of results. In fact, use more than a couple of words when searching. Even though the number of results will be large, the most relevant content will always appear at the top of the result pages.

More Basics - An Overview

What Is An Index?
What Is A Word?
What Is A Phrase?
Simple Tips For More Exact Searches
Matching All Or Any Of The Search Terms

Performing More Advanced Searches

Including Or Excluding Words
Plural Searches
Searching For Web Addresses
Fancy Features For Typical Searches
Finding Text In A Document Title
Finding A URL In The Search Engine

What Is An Index?

Webster's dictionary describes an "index" as a sequential arrangement of material. Our index is a large, growing, organized collection of Web pages and discussion group pages from around the world. The 'index' becomes larger every day as people send us the addresses for new Web pages. We also have technology that crawls the Web looking for links to new pages. When you use our search service, you search the entire collection using keywords or phrases. back

What Is A Word?

When searching, think of a word as a combination of letters and numbers. The search service needs to know how to separate words and numbers to find exactly what you want on the Internet. You can separate words using white space and tabs. back

What Is A Phrase?

You can link words and numbers together into phrases if you want specific words or numbers to appear together in your result pages. If you want to find an exact phrase, use "double quotation marks" around the phrase when you enter words in the search box.

Example 1: To find lyrics by the King, type "you ain't nothing but a hound dog" in the search box. You can also create phrases using punctuation or special characters such as dashes, underscore lines, commas, slashes, or dots.

Example 2: Try searching for 1-800-999-9999 instead of 1 800 999 9999. The dashes link the numbers together as a phrase. back

Simple Tips For More Exact Searches

Searches are case insensitive. Searching for "Fur" will match the lowercase "fur" and uppercase "FUR".

By default, all searches are accent insensitive as well, but administrators can change this setting. Accent sensitivity relates to Latin characters like õ. back

Matching All Or Any Of The Search Terms

To match all the search terms within a query select ALL from the dropdown list in the search form (returns fewer results). To match any term with a search query select ANY from the dropdown list in the search form (returns more results). back

Including Or Excluding Words

To make sure that a specific word is always included in your search topic, place the plus (+) symbol before the key word in the search box. To make sure that a specific word is always excluded from your search topic, place a minus (-) sign before the keyword in the search box.

Examples: To find Jobs in the USA and not in the UK, try "Jobs +USA -UK". To find Jobs in London, try "Jobs +London". back

Plural Searches

To expand your search you can check the Plural Search Box within the search form. This will increase the number of search results and is a useful feature if you wish to match ALL terms too.

Example: If you search for cv and resume services and your search terms are "cv" "resume", by checking the Plural Box the results returned will be for "cv", "resume", as well as "cvs" and "resumes".

Using wildcards works in a similar way.

Wildcards: By typing an * within a keyword, you can match up to four letters.

Example: Try Job* to find Job or Jobs. back

Searching For Web Addresses

If your search term is a URL, like "http://www.BusinessSeek.biz/", some search engines will redirect you directly to the URL. To avoid this behavior, and do an actual search with the URL as the search term, enclose the URL in double-quotes. back

Fancy Features For Typical Searches

You can search more than just text. Here are all of the other ways you can search on the net:

Finding Text In A Document Title

title:text

Finds pages that contain the specified word or phrase in the page title (which appears in the title bar of most browsers). The search title:Biotechnology would find pages with Biotechnology in the title. back

Finding A URL In The Search Engine

url:text

Finds pages with a specific word or phrase in the URL. Use url:BusinessSeek to find all pages on all servers that have the word BusinessSeek in the host name, path, or filename - the complete URL, in other words. back