SEARCH

About Search

FT.com’s Search lets you find FT articles – both from the newspaper and FT.com – published during the past five years. New articles are added immediately they become available. Relevant results from business.com’s web directory are also shown.Results are presented in order of relevance, although you can change this to date order if you wish, under two tabs – FT Articles and FT Comment & Analysis.

Search demo

The quick demo shows the search engine’s capabilities and gives a brief guide on how to use it.

Search box

Enter your search term into the box at the top of all pages on FT.com to find results from FT newspaper, FT.com and business.com’s web directory.

Search Results

Your search results are presented under two tabbed sections. The first page you see shows all results from the FT (plus a section of business.com hits).

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

• Click on the FT Comment and Analysis tab to restrict the results you see to articles from our comment pages and columnists, including Lex, that match your search
• Re-order your search results by date order instead of by relevance
• Use the results filters on the left hand side of the page to discover the people, companies, places and topics related to your search - go straight to the information you require without having to run another search
• Use the date filter to see when and how many stories related to your search were published
• With one click you can email your search results to colleagues and friends
• Click the ’bookmark’ link to save your search as a bookmark in your Internet browser for convenient and speedy access to your search at a later date.
• The FT Suggests box recommends other FT.com pages or site sections relevant to your search

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Advanced Search tips

You can increase the accuracy and effectiveness of your searches by following the tips below, which describe general search hints as well as the search ”operators” specific to FT.com search.

Searching phrases

To search for an exact phrase just put quotation marks around the phrase. For example, try searching for “business class“.

Including / excluding words

By default our search engine looks for all the words you have typed in and includes them in your search. However if you need to include some words and not others then use the ”+” and ”-” operators.

• ”+” operator:

To include words, just type a plus sign ”+” in front of each one. For example, if you want to find articles that contain ”advertising” and ”online” then type: +advertising +online

• ”-” operator:

To exclude words, just type a minus sign in front of each one. For example, if you want to find articles that contain ”advertising” but not ”online” then type: +advertising -online

Either / or

If you’re equally interested in two or more alternatives, put brackets around the alternatives to define an OR type search. For example, search for: (lend borrow) finds articles with either of the words ”lend” OR ”borrow”.

Searching headlines only

By default our search engine will look for your search terms in the whole article. However if you wish to restrict your search to just the headlines simply type ”headline:” in front of each word or phrase. For example, to find the phrase ”interest rates” in the headline, type: headline:”interest rates”.

Searching bylines only

If you wish to find articles written by one of our journalists you can restrict your search to the article’s byline by typing ”byline” in front of each word or phrase. For example, typing: byline:”martin wolf” finds only Martin’s articles.

Word variations (stemming)

When appropriate our search engine will automatically search for words that are similar to some or all of your search terms. For example, if you search for ”strategies” our search engine will also search for related variations such as ”strategy”. Any variants of your terms that were searched for will be highlighted in the snippet of text accompanying each result.

Capitalisation

Our searches are NOT case sensitive. Therefore regardless of whether you use upper case, lower case or a combination of both our search engine will automatically search for all versions.

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