Help with Searching

Our search engine helps you find what you're looking for on our site. Here's how it works: you tell the search engine what you're looking for by typing in keywords, phrases, or questions in the search box. It responds by giving you a list of all the Web pages in our index relating to those topics. The most relevant content will appear at the top of your results.

How To Use:

1. Type your keywords in the search box.
2. Press the Search button to start your search.

Here's an example:

1. Type help with copywriting in the search box.
2. Press the Search button or press the Enter key.

Tip: Don't worry if you find a large number of results. In fact, use more than a couple of words when searching. Even though the number of results will be large, the most relevant content will always appear at the top of the result pages.

How do I search for an exact Phrase?

You can link words and numbers together into phrases if you want specific words or numbers to appear together in your result pages. If you want to find an exact phrase, use "double quotation marks" around the phrase when you enter words in the search box.

Note: Searches are case insensitive. Searching for "Copywriting" will match the lowercase "copywriting" and uppercase "COPYWRITING".

Simple Tips for More Exact Searches

Including or excluding words:

To make sure that a specific word is always included in your search topic, place the plus (+) symbol before the key word in the search box. To make sure that a specific word is always excluded from your search topic, place a minus (-) sign before the keyword in the search box.

Example: To find information on graphics — not related to our graphic design program — you might try searching for "graphics -design".

Expand your search using wildcards (*):

By typing an * within a keyword, you can match up to four letters.

Example: Try wish* to find wish, wishes, or wishful.

Searching for web addresses:

If your search term is a URL, like "http://www.awaionline.com/", our search engines may take you directly to the URL. To avoid this behavior, and do an actual search with the URL as the search term, enclose the URL in double-quotes.

Fancy Features for Typical Searches

You can search more than just text. Here are some other ways you can search:

text:text
Finds pages that contain the specified text in the body of the document. By way of comparison, searches without the "text:" attribute will scan the URL, title, links, and META tags as well as the document body.

title:text
Finds pages that contain the specified word or phrase in the page title (which appears in the title bar of most browsers). The search title:copywriting would find pages with the word copywriting in the title.

url:text
Finds pages with a specific word or phrase in the URL. Use url:catalog to find all pages that have the word catalog in the host name, path, or filename - in other words, anywhere in the URL.