Research Tips
Let's say your teacher has given you an assignment to locate information about the
Six Day War. Daunting task? With our search engine and these simple tips, it couldn't
be easier.
- Use "exact phrase"
You may be tempted to trust your searches to a string of words. But with 75 million
pages with eight thousand words on a typical newspaper page, there are approximately
600,000,000,000 "one word" searches. way, way too many to begin with. Using the
exact phrase will help give you the results you need.
Now try it as a phrase...
- Remember the date
Refining your search by date is one of the more powerful ways to focus your search.
Find the year(s) when your targeted event occurred and narrow the search to only
those dates. This helps to exclude others with the same name from your search.
- LiveHelp
If you are a member and there is something you are looking for that you cannot find,
but are sure must be in the archives, log in and then the Live Help Button will
show up in the in the upper right hand corner of every page. Click on the chat button
to ask for help from one of our site content experts. They can't do full time research
for you, but they might have an extra tip or two to help you find a particular story.