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Having Trouble Finding Things?By Shane Jester, Central Web SupportUNT's new search engine has a slightly different look and feel from the previous version. Following are some tips to narrowing your search results in an effort to retrieve more accurate information from the search engine. The first trick is knowing how to search for your results. Are you looking for a general topic or for a specific issue or word? If you are looking for a general topic, you should select the ALL 0ption from the Match list box. This will instruct the search engine to search for any occurrences of the word or words in your query. (i.e. a search for John Doe would return a list of results that contained both the words John and Doe somewhere in the document. If you are only looking for an occurrence of either of the two words you should select the OR option. If you need a more narrow search (i.e. a phase search, or full name search) you should select the Boolean option from the Match list box. A boolean search allows you to customize your search using various ANDs, ORs and NOTs. The following are some examples of boolean searches:
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