Search Help

Enter the words you want to search for, making sure they are spelled correctly. The search engine will try to find pages containing all of the words you enter, listing the best matches first. By default, Press Releases are not searched. To search Press Releases, use the Advanced Search page.

When entering words, a Boolean "and" between words is assumed; that is, documents will be retrieved that have all the specified words. If you wish to find all the documents that have any word, then use "or" between your search words.

You can use the words 'and' , 'or' and 'not' to specify whether the documents should contain all, some or none of the keywords.

Boolean operator examples
Search phrase	Result
Redundancy *and* payments	This will return documents that contain both redundancy and payments
Redundancy or payments	this will return documents that contain either redundancy or payments or both
Redundancy *and not* payments	this will return documents that contain redundancy but do not contain payments

Wildcards

When specifying keywords you can use wildcards to generalize your search. The only wildcard character is the asterisk (*). The asterisk is a placeholder for any number of characters (including none). You can use the wildcard only at the end of a word.

employ* would find "employer", "employee", "employment", etc.

Proximity searching

You can limit your search results to only include documents where your keywords are close to each other.

The search phrase meeting near Brussels will find all documents that contain the words "meeting" and "Brussels" within 100 words of each other.

Limiting your search by area

The quick search function searches only part of the website. To search the entire site, or limit the area of the site searched, use the Advanced Search page.

Last modified: 11/02/2004

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