Advanced Searching
If you want to improve relevance or reduce the number of results your search is returning, try our advanced searching options.
All of these words...
All the words you enter here will be included in the results returned. Our default search settings look for all your words, followed by most, some and any of them. If you use our 'all of these words' option, the search will stop when there are no more documents in the index containing all of your words.
...with this exact phrase...
Whatever you enter here will be searched for as a phrase.
...and Any of these words...
As many as possible of the words you enter here will be included in your search results. First UKSearch.com will look for all the words, then most, some, any...
but not including the words...
Words you enter here will be excluded from your search.
and not including the phrase...
The phrase you enter here will be excluded from your search.
Only include sites from...
To isolate your search to one site only, enter a domain name here, eg. www.bbc.co.uk.
With Adult filtering...
Select 'off' if you don't mind adult sites (eg. those which include sex/violence) being included in your results (where relevant to your search). Select 'on' if you prefer adult material to be filtered out of the results. For more information on how results are filtered, click here.
Advanced searching from the homepage
You can use quotation marks (" ") and a plus (+) or minus (-) sign to perform some aspects of an advanced search from the homepage.
Quotation marks around your search words will force a phrase search.
For example, a search for
will favour pages where 'Bill' and 'Gates' are found together, as a phrase.
Whereas, a search for
(without quotation marks), although still favouring documents containing the two words as a phrase, would also include pages in which 'Bill' and 'Gates' appear separately - so you could get a page with the text: 'The bill for new iron gates is £3000' etc.
The plus sign (+) allows you to control the inclusion of words in your search.
Using the plus sign immediately before a word or before a phrase (in quotation marks), means results must include that word or phrase.
For example, results for the search
must all contain the word 'travel' and the word 'insurance', (not necessarily as a phrase). Pages also containing the word 'cheap' will be favoured.
Results for the search
must all contain the phrase 'travel insurance'. Pages also containing the word 'cheap' will be favoured.
The minus sign (-) allows you to control the exclusion of words in your search.
Using the minus sign immediately before a word or before a phrase (in quotation marks), means results must not include that word or phrase.
For example, if you were looking for sites about Balloon Fiestas and wanted to avoid sites about Ford Fiestas you could search for:
Pages containing the word'ford' would now be excluded from results. To get even more specific, the search:
would ensure the phrase 'ford fiesta' didn't appear in your results, but would allow the word 'fiesta' to appear outside this phrase.
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