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Press room search tips

Press room search provides a quick and easy way to search for Press room related pages on ibm.com. To search, type a word or phrase in the Keywords field at the top of the page, and click the Search button. Search returns a list of IBM web pages from your country that contain your search word.

The pages with the most recent date appear at the top of your results. You can change how the results are sorted by selecting Relevance or Date - oldest first.

Effective search strategies

To make your search more effective, do the following:

  1. Be specific. Try using words that are unique or try adding descriptive words. For example, a search for thinkpad may give you too many results. If you're really looking for ThinkPad drivers, specify thinkpad drivers or thinkpad dvd drivers.

  2. Try using synonyms. If you get too few results or Search doesn't find what you're looking for, try synonyms for your original words. For example, instead of searching for java classes, try java education.

  3. Check your spelling. A single misspelled or mistyped word can change your results.

  4. Learn from your results. Your search may not return exactly what you're looking for, but scanning the results may help you see the words that were found and give you ideas for other searches.

Search isn't case sensitive, so don't worry about capitalisation.

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Improving your search words

Exact phrase searches

Add double quotes (" ") around specific phrases to focus your search on the exact phrase. A phrase search can greatly reduce the number of results. For example, you could enter:


"lotus notes support"

This query returns only pages that have the exact phrase "lotus notes support" in them.

Including and excluding words

To help limit your results to specific information you can include special modifiers that require certain words be included or excluded. Do not leave any space between the sign and the word, but leave a space between search words.

+ (plus sign)
Use a + sign at the beginning of a word to require that the word appear in all pages in the results. For example, you could enter:


+thinkpad +drivers

The results must contain pages with thinkpad and drivers.

- (minus sign)
Use a - sign at the beginning of a word to exclude all pages with that word. For example, you could enter:


+thinkpad +software -drivers

The results contain pages with thinkpad and software but not the word drivers.

Expanding your search with a wildcard

Look for words that begin with the same letters by using an * (asterisk) as a wildcard. A wildcard search is useful for finding pages with words that have multiple endings. For example, you could enter:


comput*

The results contain pages with words that have the prefix comput, such as compute, computer, computing, computation and computational.

Asterisks can be used only at the end of a word or word fragment.

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