User Help - The Keyword Search
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A keyword search is a text expression consisting of a single
word, a phrase, or multiple words which is compared
to a set of records in the hope of generating a match. Keyword searches
performed by this web site ignore non-alphanumeric characters
(#, !, ", @, ^, etc.) and are case insensitive (Public
will match PUBLIC and public). All editorial search results
may be narrowed by and ordered by a number of options selected
from pull down lists located immediately below the keyword text box.
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What's Online?
A editorial history consisting of all news articles published by
The Fulton County Daily Report dating back to January, 2002. These
archives are available only to online subscribers.
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Single Words
By default the single word search results will include any
records with whole words and parts of words that match the
search word. For instance, if you were to search for "Bond"
matches would occur for "Bonding", "Bond",
"Bondsman" etc.
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Phrases
Any number of words not joined by boolean operators are
considered phrases, and the pattern match will occur for
the entire phrase. For instance, if you were to search for
"Sarasota Bonding Company", results would include only
records with this exact phrase. If you were in fact
looking for records containing any one of these words,
"Sarasota" or "Bonding" or "Company",
you will need to perform a multiple word (boolean) search.
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Multiple Words
To search for multiple words on a conditional basis you will
need to perform a special kind of logical search known as a
boolean search. Please see the section below titled
"User Help - The Boolean Search"
for more information.
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Narrow by ....
By default all editorial search results returned include
all news articles published. To narrow search results
which also match a given keyword to a specific date or author,
simply select the appropriate option from the pull down lists
before you click on the search button.
If no keyword is provided, and any number of narrow by
options are selected, all records matching the selected narrow by option(s)
will be returned when you click on the search button. For example, selecting
"January" (without providing a keyword) would
return all news articles published in January of any year.
If no keyword is provided, and no narrow by option is selected,
a complete list of all records will be returned when you click on the
search button.
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User Help - The Boolean Search
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A boolean search is made up of keywords connected by the logical
(boolean) operators AND, OR and NOT. By using a
combination of keywords and boolean operators you can improve the
results of your search.
Apart from the boolean operators,
your search expression will be treated as independent words or phrases.
The order in which you enter the words does not affect the
result.
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| Basic rules for performing a boolean search: |
- All boolean operators must be upper case (for example, use AND, do not use and), anything lower case will be treated as part of a search phrase rather than a boolean operator.
- All boolean operators should be preceeded and followed by a blank space.
- Multiple instances of a single operator type (for example, keyword OR keyword OR keyword... etc.) may be used in your search for any number of keywords.
- When searching for keywords you cannot combine (for example, do not use AND in the same search with OR etc) operator types.
- The NOT operator must precede its associated keyword as it should always apply to the text that immediately follows.
- Only the NOT operator may begin a boolean search expression, AND and OR should always be between two keywords.
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| Examples of valid boolean search strings: | Examples of invalid boolean search strings: |
• smith AND august AND civil
• smith OR august OR civil
• NOT smith NOT august NOTh civil
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• smith OR august AND civil
• smith or august and civil
• august NOT smith NOT civil NOT
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