City of Inverness and the Highlands Accommodation and Business Information Directory

The Basics of Archie Search

To enter a query into Archie, just type in a few descriptive words and hit the 'Go' button for a list of relevant matches.

Choosing Keywords

For best results, it's important to choose your keywords wisely. Keep these tips in mind:

Use obvious words likely to appear on a site with the information you want. "Luxury hotel Inverness" or "Vets" gets better results than "really nice places to spend the night in Inverness"
or "my pets health care".

Make keywords as specific as possible. "Inverness B&B" gets more relevant results than "Accommodation".

By default, Archie only returns pages that include all of your search terms. There is no need to include "and" between terms. Keep in mind that the order in which the terms are typed will affect the search results. To restrict a search further, just include more terms. For example, to plan a Holiday to Inverness, simply type: Holiday Inverness


Automatic Exclusion of Common Words

Archie ignores common words and characters such as "where", "how" and "and", as well as certain single digits and single letters, because they tend to slow down your search without improving the results.

Capitalization

Archie searches are NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For example, searches for "live music ", "Live Music", and "LiVE mUSic" will all return the same results.

Word Variations (Stemming)
To provide the most accurate results, Archie does not use "stemming" or support "wildcard" searches. In other words, Archie searches for exactly the words that you enter in the search box. Searching for "Archi" or "archi*" will not yield "Archie" . If in doubt, try both forms: "airline" and "airlines," for instance.

Search By Category

The Highland Online Directory A-Z (use the A-Z buttons) is a good place to start if you're not exactly sure which search keywords to use. Searching within a category of interest allows you to quickly narrow in on only the most relevant pages to you.

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