Search Tips
The Feinberg search engine crawls public content under feinberg.northwestern.edu domains and other domains directly related to Feinberg, indexing keywords and phrases.
For best results, enter a query that is specific. For example, instead of a general term such as "annual report," narrow your search by including the name of the department that generated the report.
The Office of Communications manages the Google CSE collection.
Refine Your Search
You can use many of Google's defined search patterns to refine your results. Please note:
- Google Search usually ignores punctuation (except in the cases below).
- Don’t put spaces between the symbol or word and your search term. A search for
site:surgery.northwestern.edu
will work, butsite: surgery.northwestern.edu
won’t.
Exclude words from your search
Put -
(a hyphen) in front of a word you want to leave out. For example, shakespeare garden -event
Search for an exact match
Put a word or phrase inside quotes. For example, "global marketing and communications"
.
Combine searches
Put "OR
" between each search query. For example, president OR dean
.
Search for a specific site
Put "site:
" in front of a site or domain. For example, site:medicine.northwestern.edu
or site:.edu
.
Source: Google Search Help