Searching in POL

The new search engine on POL is better at finding the documents you need, and you can more easily refine your search characteristics.  This page has been developed to explain the searching system in more detail.

This page contains the following help information:

To search, you simply enter a list of words separated by the space character. When looking for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in double quotes (e.g. - "computer terminal").  Your search can include multiple phrases.


Search for Individual Keywords

Be careful not to include common 'noise words' such as and, or, the, etc.  Generally, these words can be found in any document and will not narrow your search unless you use them as a part of a phrase.

EXAMPLES:

If you type this... You'll get...
computer and terminal All documents that contains the words computer, and, and terminal.  Since most documents contain the word 'and' this would return almost all documents.
purchase requisitions All documents that contain either or both of the words purchase and requisitions, although documents that contain both words will be ranked higher.

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Search Exact Phrases

Searching for an exact phrase consists of one or more content search terms enclosed in double quotes.  Your search request can contain multiple phrases.

EXAMPLES:

If you type this... You'll get...
"computer terminal"All documents that contains the exact phrase computer terminal.
"purchase requisitions" "three-part"All documents that contain either or both of the phrases purchase requisitions and three-part, although documents that contain both phrases will be ranked higher.
"accounting department" audit  creditAll documents that contain any combination of the phrase accounting department and the words audit and credit.  Documents with more 'hits' will be ranked higher.

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Ranking of Search Results

The validity of the search match is indicated by the number of stars displayed to the left of the document title.

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