Searching the www.albertacanada.com Website

• To search, use the keyword search below, using specific words or combinations of words.
• You can choose to search www.albertacanada.com only, or all Government of Alberta websites.
• The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document, if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed.

Advanced Search:

• an advanced search form is available following use of the simple search.

Help:

• provides further explanation of how to use the Government of Alberta search engine.

Query Language:

• see the brief explanation below of how the query language is used, along with examples.

Query Language

The search engine allows queries to be formed by searches for ANY words specified, ALL words specified, or by using BOOLEAN keywords. Select this option using the Method select box. The BOOLEAN method allows you to search using phrases, from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

Method:ANY Search:Alberta advantage

finds documents containing 'Alberta' or 'advantage'

Method:BOOLEAN Search:Alberta or advantage

same as above

Method:BOOLEAN Search:Alberta and advantage

finds documents containing both 'Alberta' and 'advantage'

Method:ALL Search:Alberta advantage

same as above

Method:BOOLEAN Alberta not advantage

finds documents containing 'Alberta' but not 'advantage'

Method:BOOLEAN (Alberta not advantage) and government

finds documents containing 'government', plus 'Alberta' but not 'advantage'