How to Improve Searching at Creative Proverbs

Search results are presented in the following format:

Each search operation searches completely through the database of 12,000 proverbss. The following techniques can help refine your search:

1. Search "quotes" only if you are looking for a specific keyword in a quotation. Use the "FIELD" option to search only the "Quotes" field.

2. Use the "Whole Words Only" option to find a specific keyword "exactly" as you type it in the search box. For example, an "Whole Words Only" search for 'Gift' will return only quotations with the word 'gift'. A normal search note using this option will return 'gift, gifts, and gifted'. Normal searches can sometimes return hundreds of 'hits'. If your search is taking a long time, this may be the problem. Try a "Whole Word Search" instead.

4. Use your browser's "FIND" function (usually <Control-F>) to search the search results page. For example, after completing a search for "hate" (with more than 200 matches!), you could use the "FIND" function to search for "hate_" [note space]. This allows you to skip occurrences of whatever and Richard Whately.