Search Help
Hints and tips to help you find what you want on CommunityNet Aotearoa.
Not finding what you want? These hints may help...
- Up to 200 links (called rows) to the pages found will be shown, with pages having more of the search words being listed first. To reduce the number of pages, add more search words or input it as a phrase.
- To search for a phrase as if it were a single word, enclose the phrase in double "quotation" marks. Single 'quotation' marks don't work.
- Jargon? Search for long and short versions: eg search for "North Shore Community and Social Services" as well as NSCSS, in two separate searches. Put the long form in quotes for an exact 'phrase' match.
- Please don't use special characters like !@#$%^&*()_+=-<>,.?/'":;[]{}|. Normally they are just ignored, but sometimes they cause the search to return the wrong results, or to fail saying "Your search for " not be processed at this time. Please try again later Bad Request".
- For something including a special character eg a reference 06/KC134 try leaving out the character or putting in a space eg 06KC134 or 06 KC134.
- Please don't use 'operators' like AND, OR etc. They'll be treated like ordinary words.
- If you have Javascript enabled in your browser, you can use the search box on the search page or the one near the top of every page. They work in exactly the same way.
- If you have Javascript switched off, there is a link to the Search page near the top of every page, and searches must be made from that page.
How the search engine works
The search engine finds pages containing one or more of the words entered in the search box. It doesn't matter what order you type the words into the search box. For example, searching for community networks gives the same list as searching for networks community does.
Only complete words are found. For example, searching for member might find 113 pages. membe finds none. There is no 'wild card' facility.
Plurals and singular words are treated as the same. In the above example, members also finds 113 pages. This only works for common English language plurals.
The search works off an index that is re-created each morning, so new documents will not be found until the next day, and sometimes search links will point to documents no longer there.
All text appearing on indexed CommunityNet Aotearoa web pages is searched. Downloadable documents are not searched.
Search still not working?
If your search is still not finding text that you know is there, please 'copy' the search text and send it to us, also telling us the address of the page that it should have found, if you can.
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