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SEARCHING MADE EASY
These help pages will run you through how to use our Simple
Search and the additional features of our Advanced Search
as well as how to understand
the results it generates and refine
your search.
WEB WOMBAT ADVANCED SEARCH
The Web Wombat Advanced Search is much like a Simple Search,
but provides you with more options.
The choices below the search box are used to specify how you
would like the words you entered to be used by the search
engine.
You will notice that the 'Any Words' button is the default
setting so if you don't choose an option, the Web Wombat search
engine will search for web pages that contain any of the words
you entered.
Any Words
Web Wombat will search for web pages that contain any of the
words you entered.
For example, if you type tree frog in the search box
and select the 'Any Words' option, some of the results may
contain the word tree, some may contain the word frog
and some may contain both tree and frog. The
results are returned with the pages with the most words ahead
of those with the least.
All Words
Web Wombat will search for web pages that contain all of the
words that you entered.
For example, if you type the words tree and frog
in the search box and select the 'All Words' option, Web Wombat
will only search for web pages that include both the word
tree and the word frog.
Any order
The words will be present anywhere on the page. Some may be
at the beginning of the page while others could be elsewhere
in the document.
Exact match
Web Wombat will search for items that contain the exact match
you entered.
For example, to find only pages about green tree frogs,
you would type green tree frog and select the 'Exact
Match' option.
Exclude the words
If you want to exclude certain words from the search, you
should enter these keywords(s) in the 'Exclude the words'
box. For example, if you have typed the words tree frog in
the search box, by entering the word toad in the 'exclude
the words' box, Web Wombat will search for web pages with
tree frog but not toad.
You can use the radio buttons menu to restrict your search
to web pages from Australia or New Zealand or to search on
our World Search engine
Web Wombat doesn't recognise boolean operators, such as AND
and OR, although the advanced search options actually cover
many of them. Words such as AND and OR are treated as stop-words
- words that are so common the English language can't be written
or spoken without them. For example: 'it', and 'the'. Web
Wombat does not index stop-words and ignores them when used
in a search.
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