Use the form below to search for pages in this Web site containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching page.

This search facility looks through all the current pages on the website.

To search through all the older stories and articles, please go HERE to search through our main Shetland News Archive

Query Language

Here is a brief explanation of the query language, along with examples.

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

information retrieval

• finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'

   
  information or retrieval

• same as above

   
  information and retrieval

• finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'

   
  information not retrieval

• finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'

   
  (information not retrieval) and WAIS

• finds documents containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'

   
  web*

• finds documents containing words starting with 'web'