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The Gulliver Code:Searching
From The Gulliver Code
You Have Two Options
To do a search, you can either
1. Google Search The Gulliver Code (Click on Google This Site at top right.
You may find this does the best job for multiple word searches.
2. Use the Gulliver Code search box at top left
- the Go button (or Enter on your keyboard), takes you to the article exactly as you typed it, or gives you any title matches.
- the Search button does a proper search on the string you entered, and gives you a list of all matching results.
Limit or Filter Your Results
- Any words: The Gulliver Code's default search mode will turn up results with any of the words in your query.
- All words: To limit to results that include all words, put a + at the beginning of each word:
- +john +macdonald returns only pages containing both words, like Google's default mode.
- Exclude words: To exclude results that include some words, put a "-" at the beginning:
- swift -jonathan gives you all the Swifts EXCEPT Jonathan.
- Phrase Search: You can also do a phrase search by enclosing words in quotes:
- "Jonathan Swift" turns up a smaller set of results, which not only have both words but have them in order.
Search is case-insensitive - "YAHOO" and "Yahoo" return the same results.
Avoid Short and Common Words
If your search terms include a common "stop word" (such as "the", "one", "your", "more", "right", "while", "when", "who", "which", "such", "every", "about") it will be ignored by the search system. If you're trying to do a phrase search or all-words-only search, this may result in returning nothing at all. Short numbers, and words that appear in half of all articles, will also not be found. In this case, drop those words and rerun the search.
