Standard Search

The standard search function allows you to search by words or phrases. This search function is very useful when you are looking for information that isn’t tagged with any of the terms we’ve provided in the other types of searches. (See the Category Search, Keyword Search or Advanced Search to utilize the pre-specified terms.)

Use the word “and” between search terms or phrases to find annotations that contain all the different terms you type in. Use the word “not” between search terms or phrases to find all annotations that contain the first word or phrase in your query but do not contain the second (or additional) words. The terms you type into the search box are not case sensitive. See examples below.

Search Syntax Examples:

If you would like to find only results that contain both of the words “Eddy” and “theology,”  you would type this in the search box:
Eddy and theology

If you would like to find results that use the word “theology” but do not include the word “Eddy,” you would type that query as follows:
theology not Eddy

If you would like to find all results that mention either the word theology or Eddy, you would type in:
theology Eddy

Searching for certain words will yield results that mention not just the word itself, but also other words that contain your search word as a portion of them. For example searching for the word “cult” would yield results containing the words cult, cultural and culture. You could filter out irrelevant results to just yield mentions of the specific word “cult” by typing:
cult not cultural not culture

To find results that mention a specific multi-word phrase you need to put the phrase in quotation marks or you will get results mentioning any of the terms in the phrase. For instance, searching for Christian Science Monitor, without quotes around it, would yield results that mentioned “Christian,” “Science,” and/or “Monitor.” So to make sure your results were limited to only the ones that specifically mention Christian Science Monitor, you would put the search phrase in quotation marks, “Christian Science Monitor.”