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To speed up your search we have limited the number of words that can be entered to five. This does not include common words.
Choosing Keywords
For best results, it's important to choose your keywords wisely. Keep these tips to mind
Try the obvious first. If you are looking for information on Dolly the sheep, enter "Dolly" rather than "clones"
Use words likely to appear in a story with the information you want. "supersonic air vehicle" gets better results than "really fast ways of flying"
Make keywords as specific as possible. "cod atlantic" gets more relevant results than "fish ocean"
Automatic Exclusion of Common Words
Our search ignores common words and characters such as "where" and "how", as well as certain single digits and single letters, because they tend to slow down your search without improving the results. We will indicate if a common word has been excluded by displaying details on the results page above the list of results
Capitalisation
Our searches are NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For example, searches for "anitmatter", "ANTIMATTER" and "AnTIMATter" will all return the same results.
Word Variations (Stemming)
To provide you with a greater range of results, our search functionality uses "stemming" or "wildcard" searches. In other words, searching for "clon*" will return cloning, clones, cloners etc. To narrow your search results down, try to spell out the whole word or use as many letters as possible before adding a *.
