Search Rules

This search engine helps you find documents on the Planet Chiropractic website and related sites. Here's how it works: you tell the search service what you're looking for by typing in keywords, phrases, or questions in the search box. The search service responds by giving you a list of all the Web pages in our index relating to those topics. The most relevant content will appear at the top of your results.

How To Use:

1. Type your keywords in the search box.
2. Choose the region you want to search from the drop down menu.
3. Press the Search button to start your search.

Here's an example:

1. Type philosophy in the search box.
2. Choose a region from the drop down box such as "news archives"
3. Press the Search button or press the Enter key.
4. The Results page will show you numerous pages that include the term philosophy.

Tip: Don't worry if you find a large number of results. In fact, you may want to use more than a couple of words when searching. Even though the number of results may be large, the most relevant content will often appear at the top of the result pages.

More Basics - An Overview

Here's a quick overview of the rest of our Basic Help. Just click on the links to jump to these sections.

What is an 'Index'?
What is a word?
What is a phrase?
Simple Tips for More Exact Searches
Fancy Features for Typical Searches

What is an Index?

Webster's dictionary describes an "index" as a sequential arrangement of material. Our index is a large, growing, organized collection of Web pages. The 'index' becomes larger every day as new information is added to the site.

What is a word?

When searching, think of a word as a combination of letters and numbers. The search service needs to know how to separate words and numbers to find exactly what you want on the Internet. You can separate words using white space and tabs.

What is a phrase?

You can link words and numbers together into phrases if you want specific words or numbers to appear together in your result pages. If you want to find an exact phrase, use "double quotation marks" around the phrase when you enter words in the search box.

Example #1: To find a page featuring Jim Sigafoose, type "jim sigafoose" rather than just "sigafoose" in the search box. You can also create phrases using punctuation or special characters such as dashes, underscore lines, commas, slashes, or dots.

Example #2: Try searching for 1-213-689-3161 instead of 1 213 689 3161. The dashes link the numbers together as a phrase.

Simple Tips for More Exact Searches

All searches are case insensitive. Searching for "chiropracTIC" will match the lowercase "tic" and uppercase "TIC".

Including or excluding words:

To make sure that a specific word is always included in your search topic, place the plus (+) symbol before the key word in the search box. To make sure that a specific word is always excluded from your search topic, place a minus (-) sign before the keyword in the search box.

Example: To find the word chiropractic with the word science but without the word philosophy, try chiropractic +science -philosophy.

Expand your search using wildcards (*):

By typing an * at the end of a keyword, you can search for the word with multiple endings.

Example: Try chiro*, to find chiro, chiropractic, chiropractiod, chirowebmd, and others.

Fancy Features for Typical Searches

You can search more than just text. Here are all of the other ways you can search on the net:

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