Website Search Quick Tips and Examples
- Starting your Search
- Choosing Search Terms
- Understanding the Results
- What is included in the Results
- Advanced Searching
- Excluded Characters
Search for content on our website, just type in a few words or phrases that you
are looking for into the search box which appears at the top right of every page.
Once you have typed in the word or phrase, click Search.
Entering the right search terms is key to finding the information you want.
Our search looks for pages and documents containing as many of these words and phrases
you have searched for as possible.
The results returned are ranked so that the pages and documents most relevant to
your query are presented first.
Don't worry about missing a page or document because it doesn't have one of the
words in your search -- our search facility will return relevant results even if they don't contain
all your query terms.
Understanding the Results
| Number | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | The word or phrase that you have searched for. If you wish to search again, refine your search term then click on Search. |
| 2 | The total number of pages/documents returned in the search results. |
| 3 | Icon indicating the document format (documents only). |
| 4 | The title of the page/document. Clicking on this link will access the corresponding page/document for that result. |
| 5 | Summary of the page/document for that particular result. |
| 6 | Option to change the number of search results per page. |
| 7 | Format of the document (documents only). |
| 8 | File size of the document (documents only) |
| 9 | Link to help with the various file formats used on this website. |
| 10 | The number of results that are currently being displayed on the screen, click on the '<<Previous' or 'Next>>' links to cycle through the result pages. |
| 11 | Links to a search related help page, help with finding content and a link to return to the page you were previously on. |
The search includes pages/documents from the following:
| A-Z of Services |
| County Councillors Search |
| Jobs |
| Press Releases |
| School Search |
| Site Map |
The search does not include pages/documents from the following:
| Collections Online |
| Council Meetings & Decisions |
| Library Catalogue |
| Publications Search |
| What's On and Events Guide Search |
Our search technology has a simple query syntax which enables you to enhance the
results returned without having to remember complex queries.
The table below shows examples of the different techniques you can use to improve
your search results.
| Operator | Action | Example |
|---|---|---|
| -term | Excludes documents containing a term |
This search term returns all the pages/documents that contain the phrase "museum collection" but do NOT include the word Loughborough "museum collection" -loughborough
|
| title:term | Specifies that the term must be found in the title of the page/document. |
This search term returns all the pages/documents that contain the term 'waste' within the page/document title title:waste
|
Unfortunately we have had to exclude certain characters from being used in the website
search as they could make our website vulnerable to security attacks. We are not listing the excluded
characters as this could help those attacking our website.
If you use one of the excluded characters in your search it is removed and the search
is performed using the rest of the search string provided.
e.g. If # is an excluded character then 'number#1' is changed to 'number1' and then search results for the string 'number1' are provided.
e.g. If # is an excluded character then 'number#1' is changed to 'number1' and then search results for the string 'number1' are provided.
We do not expect that this will affect many people who use this site however if
you have a trouble finding content because of excluded characters then please contact us;
- using our website feedback form
- e-mail web@leics.gov.uk
- telephoning 0116 305 8151
Page Last Updated: 13 May 2013
