Useful and powerful resources to collect e-clippings more efficiently
Overview search resources
Overview usage search resources
Examples of search queries
E-knip supports the following ways to collect e-clippings as aimful as possible:
- Uncapitalized characters find uncapitalized and capitalized characters, capitalized characters find only
capitalized characters.
- A specific range of words can be found with "linking through quotation marks".
- Find variations by using the asterisk (*) character before and/or after a word or a range of words.
- With "+url:address" you can specify which website address must be the source of the clipping. And with
"-url:address" a specific website adress gets excluded from the results.
- With "+word" and "-word" you can require an include or an exclude of a word or a range of characters in the URL of
your clipped results.
- Country and language codes, with "+land:BE" you can define precisely which sources your
e-clippings will be collected from.
Overview search resources
| Resource | Explanation |
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| aA |
Uncapitalized characters find uncapitalized and capitalized characters, capitalized characters find only
capitalized characters. So "coffee" finds "Coffee" and "COFFEE" but "Coffee" does not find "coffee".
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| "" |
A specific range of words can be found with "linking with quotation marks". Searching "hot coffee" results
in quotes with "hot coffee" but not with "drinking hot coffee" or "hotcoffee".
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| * |
With the asterisk (*) sign you can substitute a character as a stand in for any word or character in a search
phrase. This is known as a "wildcard. By searching cof* you will find "cof" and all other words
that start with "cof" like "coffee" and "coffin".
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| +url: |
If you only want e-clippings from specific websites, you can add the "+url:" task in your search query. With
"+url:http://www.nrc.nl/" you'll only receive e-clippings from the site of NRC Handelsblad that are
interesting for you. Because "nrc.nl" is not very likely to occur in a webaddress that is not from NRC Handelsblad,
"+url:nrc.nl" is most likely enough.
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| -url: |
If you want to exclude a specific website from the results, you can add the "-url:" task in your search query.
With "-url:http://www.tweakers.net/" you exclude any clipping from the Tweakers site. Because
"tweakers.net" is not very likely to occur in a webaddress that is not from Tweakers, "-url:tweakers.net" is
most likely enough.
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| + |
For searching texts containing at least the word or wordpart after the plus (+) sign.
+coffee +hot results in only texts with both "coffee" as well as "hot".
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| - |
For searching texts without the exact word or wordpart specified after the minus (-) sign.
+coffee -hot results in texts containing "coffee" but do not contain "drinking".
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Overview usage search resources
In the following overview separate letters "a", "b", "c" and "d" are used for entries or words linked through
quotation marks in search queries. The following overview will show the impacts of the usage of the plus (+) and minus
(-) sign in front of entries.
| Search query | Result |
|---|
| a b c |
Every occurence of the entry "a" or "b" or "c" leads to a seperate clipping.
Overlappings between clippings get automatically rejected by the special e-clean technology.
That is the reason why it is more
efficient to add coinciding entries in one search query. That avoids looking twice at the same clipping.
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| +a b c |
Occurence of "a" in combination with "b" and/or "c" is required. A webpage with only "a" does not get
clipped. A webpage containing only "b" or "c", or "b" and "c" neither results in a clipping. Webpages with "ab", "ac"
or "abc" do result in a clipping.
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| a b -c |
Every page with the entries "a" and/or "b" results to clippings as long as entry "c" does not occur.
With "a", "b" or "ab" but nowhere "c" a search query results in clippings. Pages with "ac", "bc", or "abc"
or only "c" do not result in clippings.
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| +a b c -d |
Only pages containing "a" combined with "b" and/or "c" yet without "d" result in clippings. All pages without "d"
but with "ab", "ac", "abc" result in clippings. All pages containing "d" do not result in clippings. Pages without
"d", "b" or c but with "a" neither result in clippings.
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| +a +b -c -d |
All pages containing "a" as well as "b" where neither "c" or "d" occurs result in clippings.
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Examples of search queries with explanation
| Search query | Explanation |
|---|
| "Hans van Mierlo" "Jan Terlouw" "Boris Dittrich" "Roger van Boxtel" "Winnie Sorgdrager" |
Example of multiple "entries" in a search query. There can be practically as much entries in a search query as
needed. See the search query examples.
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| *haven* -handhaven |
Search query of a custormer who wants to receive all the news of havens. Pages with "luchthaven", "havenarbeider"
and "havens" do occur in the results, as long as the webpage does not containt "handhaven".
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| UMTS -url:tweakers.net |
Search query of a customer who is broadly interested in UMTS and everything associated with it, as long as the
source of the clipping is not "www.tweakers.net".
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