Search Help
SEARCH QUICK TIPS
Newspix searches for the exact keyword string you give it:
If you search for Howard golf it will look for that exact phrase, and ignore the image captioned ”Howard plays golf”. Put “and” between terms to get good results, eg search for Howard and golf
• Use all lower case - not capital letters
• Do not use commas - it will break the search and only look at words before the comma
• To search a string of reference numbers - put a comma between them. ie. 472724, 472725, 472726
• BEST OF ALL, READ THIS HELP SECTION TO GET TARGETED RESULTS.
Basic search terms or keywords
Type what you are looking for in the search field. A "Keyword" or a "Search Term" is a word or words.
If you want to find photos of Nicole Kidman, type in the keywords nicole kidman
Type it all in lower case - then Newspix will look for caps AND lower case, and a mixture of both.
If you are searching for pictures of two or more people, then separate the names with the word and - eg: for pics of John Howard and Peter Costello together, search for john howard and peter costello
If you are searching for pics of a person with one or another of other people, you would use the word or – eg for pics of John Howard with either Peter Costello or Malcolm Fraser search for john howard and peter costello or malcolm fraser
For pics from a particular place, you would do it like this: nicole kidman and fox studios
To search for a picture from a particular time, you would do it like this: nicole kidman and 2004 or kidman and april and 4 and 2005
Now, to really refine your search, read on!
Fine tune that search string
and --- A search for howard and keating will find pics including both those names.
or --- This finds pix with any one of the search terms, eg kidman or cruise will call upall pics of Nicole and all pics of Tom, including all pics of them together.
Note: + or and in search not always interchangeable due to coding peculiarities, eg:
Search for john and howard will get 5488 results
Search for howard and john gets 5488 results
Search for john+howard gets 5330 results
Search for howard+john gets 13 results
Search for john + howard gets 0 results
not --- A search for howard not canberra will find pictures of Howard anywhere except the national capital. A search for kidman not nicole will call up all Kidman pics except those of the actor.
Upper case, Lower Case --- Using all lower case (or upper case) will find both upper and lower case. So howard or HOWARD find the same pictures. Using upper and lower case, as in Howard, finds only instances of upper and lower case
Brackets --- Brackets will tell Newspix what you think is more important. For example, searching for (howard or crean) not canberra will find all pictures with the words "Howard" OR "Crean", and then will remove from these all pics taken in Canberra.
The brackets work because the Newspix search engine puts more importance on and than or. If you didn't use the brackets, you'll see all pix with the word howard, PLUS all those captions which mention crean but don't also contain the word "canberra". Simple, hmm?
Apostrophes --- Newspix supports apostrophes. Search for O'Chee and it will find results. Search for OChee and it won't.
In Relevance, this wouldn’t be very useful as the least relevant will be at the top.
Relevance is decided by how many times your search term is mentioned in the caption: the more it is, the more “relevant” Newspix decides it is.
Stemming --- By default, the search engine will find extensions of a word. Searching for shoot also finds shoots and shooting and shooter. Searching for "shoot" in double quotes finds only shoot.
Wildcards --- Two wildcards can be used - asterisk (*) or question mark (?).
Asterix *:
The * can be used to extend your search, thus net* will find network, netting, nettle, and so on.
It can be used to take the place of any number of characters. Thus trac*y would find tracy, tracey, tractability, tracery or any other word which begins with trac and ends with y and has any number of letters in between.
Question mark ? -- A question mark takes the place of a specific character.
ba??n would find bacon, basin, baton, baden, or any other word which begins with ba and ends with n and has only two letters in between.
OldPixRef. We still have our image reference numbers from the previous Newspix site on this site. You can search for them using the search field
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