Archive Search Tips

Archive Search Tips

Here you can find useful examples and description about searching the news archive of Technology Today. Read it carefully to get the best results. If you need more help, please contact us at our helpdesk.

Quick Overview

You can search fulltext articles from more than 35,000 news sources and sections stored in a week-long archive.
Searching is case insensitive. Words music and mUSIC return the same results.
Some of the common words like the, is, etc. are not included in your search.

Search Term Syntax

Term Description

OR Using OR operator gives you articles for every keyword in the search term.

AND Using AND operator gives you only those articles that contain all keywords in the string.

" " (quotation marks) Using quotation marks you limit your search for exact phrases.

* (asterisk sign) Using an asterisk sign gives you variations of root keyword. You cannot use it in phrases.

( ) (parenthesis) You can use parenthesis to adjust priority of your search phrase evaluation (as common math/boolean expressions).

Examples

Keywords (search phrase) Description

music will search for any articles that contain word music

music OR band OR song will search for articles containing any of the keywords

nhl AND hockey will search for articles containing both words. (Note: AND can be omitted in this case)

"white house" OR senate will search for articles containing the phrase white house or the word senate

"west bank" AND arafat will search for articles containing both the phrase west bank and the word arafat

bank* will search for articles containing bank, banks, banking, banker etc.
Using * (asterisk sign) gives you variations of root keyword.

student* AND ( protest* OR demonstrat* ) will search for articles containing words student or students, etc. in combinations with protest, protests, demonstrate, demonstration, etc.

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Term	Description
OR	Using OR operator gives you articles for every keyword in the search term.
AND	Using AND operator gives you only those articles that contain all keywords in the string.
" " (quotation marks)	Using quotation marks you limit your search for exact phrases.
* (asterisk sign)	Using an asterisk sign gives you variations of root keyword. You cannot use it in phrases.
( ) (parenthesis)	You can use parenthesis to adjust priority of your search phrase evaluation (as common math/boolean expressions).

Keywords (search phrase)	Description
music	will search for any articles that contain word music
music OR band OR song	will search for articles containing any of the keywords
nhl AND hockey	will search for articles containing both words. (Note: AND can be omitted in this case)
"white house" OR senate	will search for articles containing the phrase white house or the word senate
"west bank" AND arafat	will search for articles containing both the phrase west bank and the word arafat
bank*	will search for articles containing bank, banks, banking, banker etc. Using * (asterisk sign) gives you variations of root keyword.
student* AND ( protest* OR demonstrat* )	will search for articles containing words student or students, etc. in combinations with protest, protests, demonstrate, demonstration, etc.