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Search Basics and Quirks
- All searches are case-insensitive. That means capitalization doesn't matter;
type in your search terms in lower case, upper case, or a mixture.
- The search box is puny. If you run out of room in it, don't worry -- just keep typing.
Even though what you've already typed will look like it's being pushed off the
left side, it'll still be there and the search engine will read it.
- In the summaries it returns, the search engine only quotes the first three matches on each
page. I suppose I could increase the number if that's really a problem.
- The search engine can handle some, but not all, variant Romanizations. If you don't get
any hits on Korean words, try different spellings. (It knows nothing at all of Hangul.)
Single Word Search
If you just type one word in the search box and click Go, the engine will find all
the instances of that word in ATESK. If you type more than one word, by
default it will try to find any of those words. That is, if you type
You'll get all the pages which mention either Cheju or Seoul.
Requiring Words
To change that behavior, place a plus sign (+) ahead of any word that you
absolutely want to be in the results. If you typed
You'd get only pages on which both those names are mentioned.
Eliminating Words
If you want to omit a certain word, place a minus sign (-) ahead of it.
Typing
would return a list of pages mentioning Seoul but not mentioning Itaewon
(which is the Seoul neighborhood more or less given over to foreigners, tourists,
and military types).
Exact phrases
If you want to search for an exact phrase, enclose it in double quotation marks (").
For example, typing
"Korean standard of living"
would return pages containing those exact words in that exact order.
Wildcards
The search engine accepts an asterisk (*) as a wildcard character. If you typed
you'd get hits discussing contracts, containers, continuing, controls, contact, and so on.
You can also put wildcards in the middle of words or phrases. You can even combine
them with quotation marks and plus and minus signs. Try
and see what you get. (I don't know how useful wildcards really are, but if you can find what
you want with them, great.)
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