Site Search Help

This page contains information about our new site search tool, including some tips to make it easier to find exactly what you are looking for.

Basic Instructions

• Type the words that you are wanting to find into the white box.  The search engine is not case sensitive.

• Click the 'Search Our Site' button.

• A page will open with a list of results that include those words.

Tips

• It makes no difference where in our website you are, the search engine will search the entire site.  If you are in the Commissioners area and type the word minutes, you will get results from all parts of our website that contain that word, not just the Commissioners area.

• When putting in search words, be as specific as possible.  For example if you are looking for June 2007 minutes to a Commissioners meeting, entering Commissioner Minutes June 2007 will provide fewer, but more relevant results than entering simply Commissioner Minutes

• When you search, the engine looks for pages that contain those words in any order.  Use quotes to narrow down your search.  For example a search for it department returns 55 results, while a search for "it department" returns only 11 results.  The quotes force the engine to look for the words in the order you entered them.

• You can combine searches with and without quotes.  Using the previous example, if we change our search to "it department" october we get only 7 results

• If you get a page that says 'Your search did not match any documents', nothing on our website contains those words; please enter different search terms.

• If you get a page that says "Did you mean" followed by a word similar to the one you typed in, the search engine believes you mistyped the word.  Try clicking on the suggested word for different results.  A search for sepptic provides zero results, but clicking the suggested word septic provides 10 results.

• If you get results you weren't expecting, double check your spelling.  A search for abode will provide entirely different results than a search for adobe.

• Although our search engine is a powerful tool, you may not know enough about your subject to find it this way.  If this happens to you, we have three different site maps that you can use.  We have a site map organized by department, a site map organized alphabetically by page title, and a site map organized by when the page was last updated.

• Although our search engine is powered by Google, it only looks at the www.miamicountyin.gov website.  If you are searching for something that you know exists in the county but can't find it here, try using the standard version of Google, which searches the entire Internet.