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Search Tips

If you want to get more relevant/specific results, try using the following tips:

• Use multiple words. Example:
  censorship oflc aba
  privacy email sms bill 2004
• Use quotation marks (") with phrases. Example:
  "telecommunications interception"
  censorship "south australia"
• Use a tilde (~) to find similar words. Example:
  ~legislation (finds legislation, law, bill, etc)
• Use minus (-). Example:
  censorship oflc -aba (does not find pages containing aba or ABA)
• Use wildcards (*). Examples:
  crypto*
  "crypto* policy"
• Check your spelling (if no results are found and you'd expect there would be relevant documents on EFA's site).
• You can also try the Advanced Search options.

The examples below provide more detail about the above tips (and there is additional information on the separate Search Engine Help Page).

Use multiple words

Using multiple words will return more refined results than a single word. The search engine will only return documents that contain all the words (anywhere in a document, not necessarily close together).

Example:
censorship ABA
will return more relevant results than typing just censorship. Only documents containing both censorship and ABA will be found.

Use quotation marks

Use quotation marks to find phrases or words that must appear adjacent to each other.

Examples:
"content regulation"
"internet censorship"
"telecommunications interception"
censorship "south australia"
Without quotation marks, the search results would include the word content and regulation, but not necessarily in that order - the words could appear anywhere, and in any order, within the document.

Use tilde

Use tilde (~) to find words with similar meanings using the search engine's built-in thesaurus.

Example:
~legislation (finds legislation, law, bill, etc)

Use minus (-)

Use a minus sign to exclude a word from the search results. Only documents that do not contain the word will be found..

Example:
censorship oflc -aba (does not find pages containing aba or ABA)

Note: Leave no spaces between minus sign and the term.

Use wildcards

Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular request. The * character is used as the wildcard character.

Use a wildcard to match the prefix of a word or to ignore the middle of something. For instance, searching for wh* will find the words what, why, when, whether, and any other word that starts with wh.

Wildcards may be combined with the minus (-) modifier, quotes for phrases and the tilde (~) for similar words.
Examples:
law* (finds law, laws, lawful, etc)
"crypto* policy" (finds the phrase crypto policy, cryptography policy, etc)
crypto* -policy (finds pages containing a word starting with crypto but that do not contain policy.)