A search engine (Public beta version*) is available on this blog to help you search for and easily find a post or a lesson using one or more keywords. Here’s how to use it.

Accessing the search engine

The search engine can be accessed by clicking on the white magnifying glass icon on a black background located at the top right of every page on the site.

To start a search

Here are the options offered by the search engine:

1. Enter one or more keywords in the white search box. To find an exact phrase, place it in quotation marks.
2. You can choose the order in which the results will be displayed (“Relevance” displays posts first, followed by lessons and replies to the original comments).
3. You can limit the search to a specific type of content: Entries and/or Thematic Collections and/or replies to original comments.
   You can choose the number of results displayed on each page: 10, 25 or 50.
4. To refine your search, additional filters are available (see below)
5. Click on ‘Search’ to start the search.

Additional filters allow you to narrow down the scope of the search:

1. By date range
2. By one or more years
3. Allows you to tick/untick all options

Search results

Here are some details about the results page:

1. Reminder of the keyword(s) searched for
2. Indication of the year(s), or the filtered entry page(s)
3. Order in which results are displayed: it is possible to change the order without restarting a search
4. Extract length: you can change the length of the extracts displayed on the results page: 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000 words or full text.
5. Results from Entries and Thematic Collections appear on a blue background. At the top of each result is its reference, date and title. The title is clickable and opens the original page in a new tab.
6. Results from Responses to original comments appear on a beige background and are preceded by their reference, date and title.
7. The search term(s) are highlighted in yellow wherever they appear in the extract.
8. By clicking on the + icon, you can read the full text of the relevant extract.
9. To modify your search or start a new one, click on the magnifying glass.

If the results span several pages, pagination appears at the bottom of the results page:

1. Go to the previous results page
2. Go to the next results page
3. The page currently being viewed is displayed in bold
4. Other available pages

*Public beta version: although it has been tested for several weeks and is fully functional, we are still working on some adjustments to the way results are displayed. This note will be removed as soon as these adjustments have been made.