Some words about the search:

You can add multiple words or phrases separated by spaces. A phrase is a number of words enclosed in double-quotes e.g. "East Village". A matching post has to contain all the words and phrases you entered.

When searching for single words without quotes, various forms of the word may be found, e.g. 'play' finds 'plays', 'played' and 'playing' as well.

The results are always limited to 100. So if you see a 100+ matching posts, you should limit your search further by adding another word or phrase.

As many other search engines, we use the concept of noise-words. These are common words such a 'the, my, this...'. These words are ignored in the search. This is also true for single letters and numbers. This is normally a good thing, but is raises some problems. For example you can't search for "Club 8", it always returns all messages with 'Club' and ignores the '8'.

You can limit the posts to an author by adding author:name at the beginning of your search e.g.

author:julian "Field Mice" Manchester

or author:"Steven Thornton" postcard "orange juice"

Similary you can use subject:text in your seach, e.g. subject:"twee socks"

or both author and subject: author:alexander subject:swedish

Show only posts from 1998: year:1998

Order by date, subject or author: sort:date sort:subject sort:author

The search works the same for both the Indiepop and Shalala list archives, but is different from the main TweeNet search.