Google type searches
Do you want to do a Google type search? Instead of typing, for example, "eating for health" you will need to type in "eating and for and health".
Simple searches
Our website uses the Verity search engine to power it's search pages. Below are some simple instructions to help you take advantage of our search system.
When you carry out a search for something like eating for health the site will try to search for this exact phrase. If however, you wanted to find documents containing at least one of these words (i.e. either eating, for or health) you will need to separate each word with a comma: eating, for, health.
Search engines like Google would interpret the above search as "find me a document with all of these words in, but not necessarily in this order". If you wanted to do a similar search on our site you would need to type in eating and for and health.
Advanced searches
The following table shows examples of searches phrases you can use and how they would be interpreted:
Search phrase | Returns results containing |
eating,for,health | eating or for or health |
eating for health | the phrase, eating for health |
eat | eats, eating, eater |
healthy AND physical | health, healthy or healthier and physical |
healthy OR physical | health, healthy or healthier or physical |
healthy NOT physical | health, healthy or healthier but not physical |
You will notice from the examples above the site searches for words that derive from a common stem. For example, a search for instructional returns results that contain instruct, instructs, instructions, and so on. When searching you can take advantage of the * wildcard character. A search for instru* returns results with these words, and also those with instruct, instructional, and so on.
You can create more specific search phrases by including the words AND, OR or NOT. If you wanted to explicitly search for the words AND, OR, or NOT, you need to enclose them double quotation marks; for example: health "and" social.
Search phrase | Returns results containing |
physical AND activity | both physical and nausea |
physical "and" activity | the phrase physical and activity |
"physical and activity" | the phrase physical and activity |
