Help: How to use the Common Search System.

Attention

Coverage

This search system may not cover all the pages of "Cabinet Office Web Site". Use other search system to find the information of the following sites.

About Date range

"Date range" will help you filter the search result by the last updated month.
However, it is impossible to search pages which updated before November 2022 by month.
To search pages which updated in and before November 2022, please set "Date range" from November 2022 to November 2022.
* More detailed search is as follows : Advanced Search

Common Search System

  • screenshot of search result screen: Search Keywords, Open search options
  • screenshot of search result screen (search options displayed): Sites, Other options
  • screenshot of search result screen: Related Keywords

Input the keywords you want to search, and click the "search" button.

screenshot: Enter "keyword" in search box

* The keyword is recommended over 2 characters to get correct results.

Advanced Search

You can search in advance with multiple keywords and the terms like AND / OR / ANDNOT.

Condition Format DESCRIPTION
AND Keyword#1 Keyword#2 If you search for documents including "keyword#1" and "keyword#2", input as left.
OR keyword#1 |keyword#2 If you search for documents including "keyword#1" or "keyword#2", input as left. Please be sure to insert a space before the pipe symbol.
ANDNOT keyword#1 !keyword#2 If you search for documents including "keyword#1" but "keyword#2", input as left. Please be sure to include a space before the exclamation mark.
Phrase Search "keyword#1 keyword#2" If you search for documents including phrase like "keyword#1 keyword#2" Use (") and input as left.

* Use " "(Space),"|","!",""" with half-width characters. (accept single-byte characters only.)

Applied Case

You can search in advance with the combination of AND / OR / ANDNOT .

screenshot: Enter "keyword#1 keyword#2 !keyword#3" in the search box

You can search documents includes both "keyword#1" and "keyword#2", excluding "keyword#3".

Suggest Search

While inputting search keywords, they are analyzed in real-time and calculated suggest keywords are displayed.

screenshot: keyword candidate displayed when "Cabinet Office" is entered in the search box

Open search options

If you click the "Open Search Options" button, you can search for more details.

screenshot: " Open search options " button

Sites

By selecting target websites, you can narrow down the result by website. Number of hit searches on each website is displayed in parentheses at the end of the website name.

screenshot: list of website names and check box

Other options

screenshot: Other options: Keyword Locations, PDF Files, Sort, Number of Results, Date range

By selecting following options, you can narrow down the search results and set the output format.

  • Keyword Locations
    • anywhere in the page (default)
    • only in the title of the page
  • PDF Files
    • Includes (default)
    • Excludes
    • PDF Only
  • Sort by
    • relation:descending sort (default)
    • date:descending order
    • date:ascending order
  • Number of Results
    • 10 (default)
    • 20
    • 30
    • 50
    • 100
  • Date range

Related Keywords

Present keyword ideas related to search keywords.

screenshot: related keywords to be displayed as text links