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To find a document or page contained within this site, type the word or words that you are looking for into the search box in the top right hand corner of the page. Click the ‘Go’ button to the right of the box to search.
Our search engine uses an integrated Google custom search, so, when searching our site, use the same techniques you normally use on Google. Below are a few tips but you can find more detail by visiting Googles’ More Search Help page.
Tips for basic searching
- Basic search will search all page content and the text of documents
- Assumes ‘AND’ between the words
- You can use a combination of OR and NOT (symbols | and - respectively) to refine your search.
- Is not case sensitive, e.g. searching for modification will find modification and Modification
- Search looks for common word variations i.e. searching for ‘modifications’ also finds ‘modification’ and searching for ‘qualifying’ also returns retults for ‘qualify’ and ‘qualifies’.
- Search for an exact phase by enclosing the words in quotes, e.g. “bsc Signatories” will locate documents where these words appear next to each other in the specified sequence.
- If search does not find any results, it will look for pages that contain any of the words you typed rather than all of them. So, a search for 'modification report' can return results that contain either the word 'modification’' or 'report', not necessarily both.
By default, results are returned in order of relevance. The closest match to your search query will appear at the top of the list. Using the drop-down lists, you can fine tune your search results by confining the search to a specific section of our website or to search only web pages or only documents.
If you cannot find what you are looking for, try modifying your keywords and refining the scope of your search using the drop-down lists. If you still can find what you are looking for, let us know using the form at the bottom of the search results labelled ‘Did you find what you’re looking for?’. You can use this to feed back to us or use the link provided to send more detailed feedback. Alternatively, you can contact the BSC Service Desk (0870 010 6950) who will help you locate the information you require.
Words that are commonly used, like 'the,' 'a,' and 'for,' are usually ignored (these are called stop words). However, there are exceptions to this exception. For example, the search ‘the code’ will return results relating to the balancing and settlement code, including where the phrase ‘the code’ appears.