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HCO Searching
From History of Canada Online
To do a search, you can either use
- HCO's search boxes at top and bottom left, or
- You can search for an article by typing in your subject in the top URL address box after "index.php/" - e.g. index.php/Crowfoot. If the article isn't there, you can create it.
HCO Search Tips
Type Your Entry in the Search Box
The searchboxes at top and bottom left give you an input field with two buttons:
- Go - the Go button (or hit Enter on the keyboard), will take you to the best match for the entered keyword.
- Search - Click the Search button and you will get a list of matching results.
Limit or Filter Your Results
- Any words: HCO'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: +george +brown returns only pages containing both words, like Google's default mode. You can also do a phrase search by enclosing words in quotes: "George Brown" turns up a smaller set of results, which not only have both words but have them in order.
- Exclude words: To exclude results that include some words, put a "-" at the beginning: brant - joseph
Boolean search is also possible, using words including "AND", "OR", and "NOT".
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.
