Geography & Cultures Search Back to Help
The Discovering Collection's Geography & Cultures search allows you to search a specific set of data that is limited to that particular subject. You may select Geography & Cultures search from the Discovering Collection home page or from the top navigation bar on all other pages in the product.
To use the Geography & Cultures search select either Places or Cultures (Places is the default option). A drop down list for each selection is present for you to narrow your choice even further. You must select one of the subtopics in the list in order to retrieve results. You must also enter a keyword in the search box so you can execute a search. If you do not enter a keyword error message will appear reminding you to do so. The keyword search box will only allow 20 characters to be keyed into it.
You will also have the option of limiting your search results to a particular document type such as Country Overview, Flag, Newspaper, and State Overview. The default is Any. You also have the option of choosing how many results you would like to show up per page. The choices are 10, 20, 30, 50, and 100.
Documents are grouped by data type into the following tabs: Reference, Primary Documents, and Multimedia. Clicking on the labeled tabs allows you to choose the type of document you wish to see. The results list will display the title of the document and its source. Reference and Primary Documents will display according to their relevancy rankings (how many times the term appears in the article). Multimedia results will display alphabetically. You can view the different data type results by clicking on the labeled tab. If the search does not find any results for a specific data type, the tab will be "grayed out" and will not work.