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—tip— Search Tool Many pages at this site are not included in the menus or tables of contents, which contain references to "high level" pages only. Use the Search Tool to find any page at this site that contains key words you designate.
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A keyword is a word consisting of a string of characters. A phrase is a sequence of one or more key words in a specific order; together, the words express an idea. Keywords and phrases describe the text and ideas contained in pages that you might want to visit.
When searching, the Search Tool looks for a match between a keyword or phrase contained in a page and the keyword or phrase you specify in the Search for box. If it finds a match, it presents you with a citation consisting of a few of the words in the page that surround the matching keyword or phrase. The citation also contains a hyperlink to the page. Click the hyperlink to see the page.
Here are the basic steps you take to conduct a search. Steps you can take to refine and improve searching are explained later on this page:
- Visit the Search Tool page.
- Think of one or more important and meaningful words (keywords) that convey the central idea, subject, or topic you want to explore.
- Type the keyword or keywords in the box on the page that follows the words Search for.
- Check the Match option of your choice:
- Check any search words if you want to find any page that contains any or all of the key words you typed.
- Check all search words if you only want to find pages that contain all of the key words you typed. (All is the default).
- In the Category dropdown, select the category of your choice or accept the default, ALL.
- Click Submit or press ENTER on your keyboard and the search will begin.
After you click the Submit button, the search will run. Results are presented on the Search Tool page:
When the search is competed, a list of page citations will appear. Citations are references to and about the pages that contain the keyword or keywords you typed. A citation does not contain the pages themselves.
Each citation describes a page at Electricka's site. It helps you decide whether the cited page contains enough information about what you're searching for to make a visit worthwhile. It also links you to the page to make visiting easy.Each citation displays:
The Category dropdown, mentioned above, is the box labeled Category that is situated below the Search for box on the Search Tool page. The Category dropdown contains a list of search categories you can use to narrow a search. Click the down arrow at the right side of the box to see the list of categories; the list will drop.
A category is the name of a subject or section of Electricka's web site. For example, each muse is a search category; products is another kind of search category.
When you search by category, you restrict your search to the pages at Electricka's web site that belong to that category. For example, if you search by a muse name, you restrict your search to pages that belong to that muse and to no other. The list of citations resulting from your search will consist of pages that belong to that muse that match the keywords you entered in the Search for box; pages belonging to other muses will not be represented in the list.
When you narrow your search by using a category, you save time and effort and you increase the chances of finding what you want.
To search using categories:
Two or more keywords arranged in a specific order make up an exact phrase. For example, living trust is an exact phrase. Living trust has a unique meaning that differs from living alone or trust alone.
The phrase living trust is not the same as the two separate keywords living and trust, and will not find the same pages. Typing living trust in the Search for box will only find pages that contain the phrase living trust; it will not find pages that contain the words living and/or trust unless they are both placed next to each other on the page in order. The keyword living will not find a page that only contains the phrase living trust; the keyword trust will not find a page that only contains trust.
To search for keywords in a specific order, surround the keywords with double quotation marks. For example, typing ""living trust"" in the Search for box will yield pages that contain the phrase living trust.
A class search is a type of search that uses the Search Tool to find all pages belonging to a particular class or group of features. When you conduct a class search, you are asking to see all the pages that are members of that class, regardless of muse membership or other consideration.
Another way to think of a class search is to visualize the images you see at the right side of many of Electricka's pages. Each different image represents a particular class or group of pages. Note that some pages may belong to more than one class. A page that belongs to more than one class will bear more than one image.
Electricka has defined three such search classes, each denoted by one of the three different kinds of images:
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Pages belonging to the ByLine class have one thing in common: they are all ByLine features.
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Pages belonging to the ByLine class have one thing in common: they are all Arts Information features.
Pages belonging to the ETAF-Amazon class have one thing in common: they all contain references to books, CDs, DVDs, or other arts-related items that are members of the ETAF-Amazon Collection.
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—tip— class searches are powerful When you conduct a class search, in effect you are searching for all pages that contain the image that represents the class. The result will show you every page at Electricka's web site that belongs to that class. For example: To find every page that contains references to books, CDs, DVDs, or other arts-related items that are members of the ETAF-Amazon Collection, conduct a class search for the ETAF-Amazon Association. |
Search for all the pages that belong to a class the same way you would search for any keyword:
Type no other keywords into the Search for box other than these character strings.
NOTE: The search will produce a list of citations for the pages that belong to the class you selected. Examine the names of pages in the citation to decide which page or pages to visit. The content description in the citation will not be useful.
As already noted above, when searching the Search Tool finds a page if contains the key words or phrases that you specify in the Search for box. When deciding if there is a match between the keyword or phrase you specify and the words or phrases in a page, it obeys the following rules:
When examining a page for a word or phrase match, the Search Tool must decide where each word or phrase in the page begins and ends. To avoid search mistakes, it is necessary that you enter keywords or phrases in the Search for box in the same way that the Search Tool will look for them when it examines the contents of pages. This means that you must specify the start and end of words the way the Search Tool does.
The Search Tool identifies the start and end of a word the way you or I might, by looking for a space before and after. Thus, if it sees two adjacent words, heaven and sent, it recognizes them as the two words heaven and sent.
The way the Search Tool recognizes compound words is more complex. The Search Tool identifies multiple adjacent words in pages as:
Please make sure you anticipate the rules for recognizing compound words that are followed by the Search Tool when you create key words and phrases for searching.
The meaningful word you enter when you search Electricka's pages may be a keyword or a wildcard.
You create a wildcard from a keyword by choosing a keyword and then modifying it before you enter it in the search for box below on this page. Your modification causes the Search Tool to ignore certain characters in the keyword according to established rules.
When the Search Tool searches for keywords or wildcards, it looks for occurrences of the keywords or wildcards you have specified in Electricka's pages. When it finds a word on a page that matches a keyword or wildcard, it decides that the page is relevant to your interests and reports it as as such:
To construct a wildcard from a keyword:
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