You can use the following search commands to help narrow your search and get more precise search results.
To search for: |
Do this: |
Example |
Items where two or more keywords are present |
Enter the keywords with a space between them |
Goole Water Tower returns items with all three words in the title in any order |
Items containing certain words in a particular order |
Place quotation marks around the group of words |
"Goole Water Tower" returns items with titles containing Goole Water Tower in that order only, but not those containing just New or just York or the words York New |
Items that don't contain a certain word |
Place a minus sign immediately before the word to be excluded (no space after the minus sign) |
High Street –Hook returns items with titles containing the words High and Street but not containing the word Hook |
Items that don't contain several words |
Place a minus sign before the list of words separated by commas (with no spaces after the minus sign and the commas) and put in brackets |
Goole -(Clock,Docks,Aire) or Clock–Docks–Aire returns items with titles containing the word Goole but not containing the words Clock, Green, and Aire |
Items where one word or another is present |
Enter keywords in brackets separated by commas (no space after the commas) |
(Goole Docks,Drax) returns items whose titles contain either the word Goole Docks or Drax |
Items that contain words starting with a particular sequence of letters |
Enter the letter sequence followed by an asterisk |
book* returns items whose titles contain words starting with book, such as books, bookshelf, and bookmark |
Items that contain only a specific spelling of a word Note: In some cases, you can expands your search to include a plural and/or an alternative spelling of your search word(s). For example, if you were searching for book, you would receive search results with items containing the keyword book or the keyword books. Searching for grey would bring back items containing the keyword grey or the keyword gray. Use this command when you want an exact match. |
Enter the keywords or phrases in quotes |
"book" returns only items with the exact word book and not items with the word books |
Items that match the exact words Note: In some cases, you can expands your search to include items based on the intent of your search automatically, rather than matching the exact keywords provided. If you do not want to do this, then all you need to do is to put quotation marks around one of your keywords. For example, if you were searching clock tower Goole, you might type the keywords clock Goole. This may bring back items that have both keywords clock and Goole. If you entered "clock" Goole, your results would include only items with the exact keywords clock Goole and not the any additional with only the keyword clock. Use this command when you want to match exact words. |
Place quotes around any single keyword |
"clock” Goole clock “Goole” |
