• Use specific words to describe what you are looking for.
• Always try the obvious first.
• Use specific keywords.
• Be watchful of keywords with more than one meaning.
• If not part of a phrase search [explained below] common words or words that are too short [less than four letters] will be ignored.

• Results returned will include all of your search terms first.
• Then the other results will be in order of decreasing relevance.
  
  Relevance is based on:
• the number of words in the row,
• the number of unique words in that row,
• the total number of words in the collection, and
• the number of documents (rows) that contain a particular word.

• A word is any sequence of characters consisting of :
  
  
• letters
• digits, and
• underscore [_]
• A phrase is any sequence of characters consisting of :
  
  
• letters
• digits, and
• underscore [_]
• Asterisk [ * ]

For your convenience the search will firstly search for the exact phrase and then each word.

This search uses stemming technology. When suitable, it will search not only for your search terms, but also for words or phrases that include those terms as part of them.

For variations in stemming searches, you can use the asterisk symbol [ * ] to represent any characters as part of your phrase search.

End or start your search term with the asterisk symbol [ * ].

The priority of the search results will match:

• person name,
• company name,
• Website title,
• WebPage title,
• email address,
• postal address,
• postal city,
• postal state.

If there are more results, the order of the results returned will depend on the whether the person or company has a Harnesslink Website or WebPage.

If the results have an equivalent rank as noted above then they will be displayed in alphabetical order.