Search Help
Our website uses Verity search engine. These tips are meant to help you target the content you are looking for.
Simple Searches
Search by typing words and phrases. Verity will find documents containing as many of these words and phrases as possible, ranked so that the documents most relevant to your query are presented first. Please note that we also use keywords in our web page source code, so pages may appear in your search results that do not appear to use an explicit phrase or word in the web page itself, but that phrase or word is used to help you find relevant content.
Examples of Simple Searches
| Search Term | Finds Pages That Contain |
| danger | The word danger and stemmed variations, such as dangers, dangerous |
| "danger" | The word danger |
| danger at work | The phrase 'danger at work' or variations of that phrase, such as 'dangers at work', 'dangerous at work' |
| "danger at work" | The explicit phrase 'danger at work'. |
| danger, work, safe | Any of the words 'danger', 'work' or 'safe' |
Searching with Phrases
Be careful of phrases that contain the following words, because they are "operators" in the Verity Query Language:
| Phrase | Finds Pages That Contain |
| maternity AND parental and leave | ALL of the words 'maternity', 'parental' and 'leave' |
| maternity OR parental leave | The word 'maternity' OR the words 'parental leave' |
| maternity NOT parental leave | The word 'maternity', but NOT the words 'parental leave' |
Using Wildcards
You can use wildcard characters to expand your search if you are not sure of the spelling of your search term.
| Wildcard | Finds Pages That Contain |
| * | Substitute for a string of characters of any length (e.g. mater* would find material, maternal, maternity; *ental would find rental, parental, etc. |
| ? | Substitute for a particular character (e.g. matern??? would find maternity, but not maternal) |
Modified: 2006-09-29
PID: 3306
