It works like many other search engines on the web you're already used to.
To search, type in the words you're looking for in the form, then click the Search button. All the Department of Physics & Astronomy web pages containing your search words will be returned.
It's a smart search engine -- it puts the best matches first, so you can usually find what you're looking for without scrolling.
You may search for a single word, several words, or a phrase. To search for an exact phrase enclose the words in quotes.
For instance, if you're looking for pages on condensed matter physics, you'd fill out the search form like this:
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Search results
Pages will often contain many results. A single search result might look like this:
| 100% | 10/26/98 | Condensed Matter Physics | Research |
From left to right, here are what the columns mean:
- Relevancy ranking
100% percent means this is a very good match. 1% percent means it's a very bad match. Search results are listed from best to worst.
- Date
The date at which this web page was last modified.
- Title
The title of the page is also a link to the page. To go to the page, just click on the title.
- Site Section
The name of the section of our site that contains this page. You can go to the index page of this section by clicking on the site section name.
Tips for better searching
Very common English words like "and" and "the" are ignored -- there's no need to include those in your search keywords.
A word like "physics" appear on the majority of our pages -- using such a word as search terms is redundant, and will slow down your search. It's best to avoid using words that you suspect appear on a large fraction of our pages.