Search

Why Use Searches?

The tabs across the top of the page repeat the search entered in the Quick and Advanced searches, or specified by the saved search loaded, across the resources you've bookmarked (My Resources), all resources in the system bookmarked by anyone (All Resources) and via a Google search of the web (Web). This is an extremely rapid way to find resources which you have not yet bookmarked.

How to Use Searches

Do a search on the My Resources tab. If you don't find what you want, broaden the search by clicking on the All Resources tab (that is, all resources in the Heurist database bookmarked by anyone), and if that doesn't find it, to a Google web search by clicking on the Web Search tab.

Note: Google searches on whole words only - for example, 'syd trav' gets 62K hits, 'sydney travel' gets 45M hits.

Future Plans

User configuration of the search engine to use in the web search tab, possibly a pulldown or radio button to choose different search engines. We also plan to provide better search URL construction as we build complex selections into our advanced tab - for example, exclusion of words, searching specific domains and so forth.

The Search function in Heurist has the following capabilities:

Partial string matching of titles, tags, keywords, special fields, all fields
Comparison operators on numeric fields and dates, including relative to ‘today’
Filter for records of specified types or bookmarked by specific users
Sorting by text, date, popularity, date of addition and modification, specific fields etc.
Search across personal bookmarks, whole database or the web with one click
Search parameters can be saved as saved searches for personal or shared workgroup use
View full data for a record within search results without loading separate page
Explore related records through tag following, see records bookmarked by other users
One-click access to page history though the Wayback Machine
Automated verification and flagging of broken URLs