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Enclose phrases in quotes. This will improve the precision of your searches. Searching for "chicago bears" will return stories about the football team; using chicago bears (no quotes) might return a story about the Lincoln Park Zoo.
You can use wildcards in keywords. For example, terror* would match "terror," "terrorism," and "terrorizing."
If you're looking for a publicly traded company, try entering its stock symbol preceded by a "/". For example, "/MSFT" for Microsoft will yield stories where the company has been specifically identified.
The Standard Search provides allows search by:
The Advanced Search allows you to drill deeper. It goes beyond beyond the Standard Search, and by saving an Advanced Search query to a Favorite Topic, you can easily access fresh content from a content filter tailored to your needs.
The Advanced Search provides three input boxes for keywords. These allow you to specify that ALL or ANY terms be present in a story, or that a story NOT include a term. For example, searching for…
…would return a story about the Bears and Packers which mentions defense or linebacker and does not mention Mike Ditka. Remember, enclose phrases in double quotes, e.g. "chicago bears".
The Advanced Search also permits a user to filter results in a number of ways besides keywords:
A powerful feature of the site is the ability to save searches. If there's a topic you'll be covering over a few days or weeks, it makes sense to do the work of searching once—and to capitalize on that work later.
From any search results page, use the "save to favorite topic" link. The system will prompt you for a name—you can call your Favorite Topic anything you'd like—and then a link will be available in the right rail to execute the search again.
To modify or delete Favorite Topics, select "Personalize" under Favorite Topics in the right rail.