Search box
FT & World Press Archive search box
Power Search & Power Search LookUp
How to use the Search Results Analysis
How to use search options available from individual articles
General search tips
Finding company information

Please note that some elements of 'search' now form part of FT.com subscription services. The Power Search interface forms part of Level 1 (FT in-depth) and FT articles are restricted to subscribers after a few days. (There are a few exceptions which are Level 1 from the time they are published). All other sources' articles are Level 2 FT in-depth plus. You will be shown all the results from your search but will only be able to view the headline and the first few lines of the article unless you have subscribed at the appropriate level to view the full articles.

Search box
Use the Search box at the top right of most pages on FT.com - to find results from FT's World Press Monitor (including the FT newspaper and FT.com plus top world sources from our archive) and business.com's web directory, all through a single search.

From your Search results page, you can also extend or refine your research:

	use the new FT and world press search box with extra options (this quick archive search box is also available on the Search home page)
	for a new search on business.com, or to browse its extensive web directory listings, click on the business.com link
	if your search term was identified by our search engine as a company name, any matching names in our database will be displayed. Click on the company name link for an automatic search to get articles that are primarily about that company or contain major reference to it
	Search also looks to see whether there are pages on the FT.com site of particular relevance to your search and suggests links if appropriate

FT & World Press Archive search box
The quick FT & World Press Archive search box can be used from either the Search results page, or from the Site Services / Search home page.

From this box, you can perform more precise searches of our archive (see General Search Tips below for more hints). Choose whether the text you enter is searched for as all words or phrase in full article or headline only; or as the byline of an FT journalist (especially useful for finding your favourite columnist's articles); or as a company name. You can also select the date range over which you wish to find articles, from today back to 5 years.

Power search
Power search gives you complete flexibility over the way you search the FT news and Global Press Monitor archive. Do a simple text search, or use it to set up more advanced search queries.

How to use Search Results Analysis
Search Results pages include a segment titled "search results analysis". This lists the most mentioned companies and the top topics found in the articles found in these results. Our search engine analyses the index terms (metadata) attached to each article to produce this information.

Use this analysis to refine your search. Select one of the companies and/or one of the topics, and Go. The company and/or topic chosen will be added to your original search, and a refined set of results produced. This feature makes it easy to focus your results on the themes that you are specifically interested in - and you know in advance that there are relevant articles.

If you originally searched on a company and/or topic by selecting them as index terms, those items will be suppressed from the search results analysis & refine options because, of course, the results are already fully relevant to those terms.

How to use search options available from individual articles
The main companies and topics by which individual articles are indexed are shown below the articles (in single article view only - if you use the "retrieve" function to see multiple articles on one page, you will need to click through to "more options" on an article to see this). You can broaden or refine your research by choosing one company and / or one topic from this list, change the date range or source group to be searched, and then search again. Note that this feature is a completely new search on the terms you select only - the terms you select here are not added to your original search.

General search tips
These search tips apply to searches entered via the FT & World Press search box and Power search. For more advanced searches of the web directory, go to www.business.com.

Boolean searches
FT.com's archive search engine supports Boolean (logical) search operators. You can use these as follows within the quick archive search box and the Power Search text entry box. Enter the search operators enclosed in <> brackets, as shown:

	< and > e.g. internet < and > broadband both terms must be present in article
	< or > e.g. internet < or > broadband either term must be present in article
	< not > e.g. internet < not > broadband finds all articles containing the word "internet" excluding those that also contain "broadband"

Exact phrase
Use double quote marks " " to search exact phrases. Our archive search interfaces provide exact phrase (either in headline or in full article) as a selectable option, but it is sometimes useful to be able to specify exact phrase within your search entry in combination with Boolean search operators e.g. "internet service providers" < and > broadband

Punctuation
You can include apostrophes within search terms, for precision, e.g.
lloyd's
o'connor
Otherwise, punctuation is generally ignored, so it is better practice to omit it from your search terms.

Capitalisation
You may use all capitals or all lower case in your search terms - the results will be the same. However, if you use a mix of capitals and lower case and choose to search exact phrase, the search will look for precisely that format as entered. Unless it is vital to your search and you are sure that the word or phrase will have been used in the same format within articles, avoid using a mix of case.

Finding company news
Company names frequently appear in a wide variety of forms across or within publications. FT.com makes it easy for you to find articles about companies despite those variations of usage. All articles primarily concerning one or more companies in our archive have a standard version of those companies' names included in their searchable index data (also known as metadata).

You will need to know what the index version of the company name is in order to search on it, and also to use one of the options we've provided to let you search specifically in that area of articles' metadata. These options are:

	the comprehensive company name lookup option in Power search (subscribers only)
	the company name results segment in the one-stop search results page
	the company name option in the Search drop-down box
	the most mentioned companies list in the Search Results page analysis segment
	the list of companies indexed within an article on the Article View pages; article pages also include links to available company tear sheets (quotes, charts, financial data etc).

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