Type one or more words (terms) that best describe the topic that you are looking for into the text area and either hit the ‘Enter’ key or click the ‘Begin search’ button.
The results page will then display a list of web pages related to the search terms that you entered, with the most relevant results appearing first.
To help you narrow your search, you can click 'refine search' to access some predefined categories of results. You can use these check boxes to reduce the number of results returned. If you can identify that particular checkboxs are related to the information that you are looking for then you can get the results that relate to those checkboxes.
For more in depth information on 'refine search' click here.Searches are not case sensitive. All letters will be interpreted as lower case, regardless of how they were typed.
The results page will only display results that include all of your search terms, thus it is unnecessary to type “and” between your terms. Moreover, the search will return the same results regardless of the order the search terms are in.
It is not neccessary to enclose phrases within " characters as is common to many search engines, as this search tool looks for documents that match the 'semantical context' or meanings of the words that you supply. It achieves this by using pseudonyms or words with similar meanings and ‘stemming’ or chopping prefix and suffix to obtain the root word ("stemmer", "stemming" and "stemmed" are reduced to "stem") to obtain results based on the meaning of your original search terms. This greatly increases the chance of finding what you are looking for. Therefore, it is not neccessary to enter“smaller metropolitan areas”, but instead just enter the terms directly.
Specify as much relevant information as possible in the search text field. For example if you are looking for information related to the language spoken most often at home in the city of Toronto, type ‘language spoken most often home toronto’ not just ‘language’.