Help with Search

Simple Search

There are two general search options on Tyler Web Sites. The simple search, available on the home page and several other pages allows you to search the listed web sites for the word(s) you type into the search box.

The simple search is an "all" search, which means the sites will match if they match all the words for which you are searching. Results are returned according to relevance to the search words, that is, the more times the site matches a word, the higher the relevance.

Sites are matched based on the site name, URL (web site address) and site description. If you want a more specific search, leave out common words or try the Advanced Search.

The search results

Results are displayed with 10 sites per page, with the name of the site, and a next to it. Click on the to see the details from the database in a separate window. Select the name, and the site will open in a new window.

If there is more than one page, page and navigation options will be displayed below the list.

 

Advanced Search

Search Types

The advanced search allows you to specify the search parameters. In Search for Any Word, you can search for sites with any of the words in the search box.

In Search for Partial Words, you can search for "any" or "all" partial words in the search box.

Fields

In addition to specifying the search type, you can also specify the fields you want to search.

Name
URL
Description

Note: When search for "all" words, you may want to only search through one field at a time. Otherwise, the search will attempt to match all words for all fields.

Results per page

Advanced also allows you choose whether to view 10, 20 or 50 results per page.

Details

When you select display details, the sites will be listed with Name, URL, Description and the when the site's entry was added or changed in the database.

 

Categories and Designers

Two other options allow you to display a simple list of sites in a particular category, or designed by a particular web site company. the selected is made from drop down lists. Check the appropriate box to see details for each.

 

Power Search

The search for power users simply uses the raw options of the database. Searches without modifiers will simply search for any word in the search box. The following modifiers will enhance the search.

Adding ' + ' before any search word, will require that the site search contain that word.

Adding ' - ' before any search word, will exclude site search results that contain that word.

Adding a ' ~ ' before any search word will rate those site searches lower in the search result.

Adding a ' * ' following a search word will search for any site that begins with that word.

Enclosing multiple words in double quotations will search for the phrase. In order to make the search exclusive, you still need to include the '+' before the phrase.

Site Search

A site search is different in that you are searching the text of TylerWebSites.com for a word or phrase. As work is still being done on the site search it is only available from this link.

This search is handy if you want to search for an article you've read in the past, or something in the articles on a particular subject.