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Most pages on TweeNet include a quick search box in the upper right corner, just type in the words you are looking for and click 'Search'.

Search syntax:

TweeNet search allows you to find a certain word or sequence of words (a phrase) within the site. Your search term can contain multiple words or phrases. A phrase has to be enclosed in double quotes like "Jens Lekman".

Examples of valid searches:

• aberdeen sunday - finds any pages that contain both words
• aberdeen "sunday records" - finds any pages that contain the word and the phrase
• "los angeles" popfest 1997 "Allan Clapp" - finds pages containing all four.

Invalid Searches:

• Racecar "Florida popfest - doesn't close the phrase
• where is tweenet - all three words are so-called noise-words that appear too often in common English or on this site. If you are using these noise words in your seach they are simply ignored. When using noise words only, there is nothing to search for and the search becomes invalid.

Mailing list archive special syntax:

If you are after specific postings in the two mailing list archives, you can add some special syntax elements; author: subject: year: These allow you to find posting by author, subject or in one year. You can combine this with the normal words and phrases and they don't have any effect on the non-mailing list pages:

• author:julian "Field Mice" Manchester
• author:"Steven Thornton" postcard "orange juice"
• subject:"twee socks"
• author:alexander subject:swedish
• "Indonesian pop" annemari year:2006
• author:"Phil Wilson"
• author:Keith year:1994 "Los Angeles" subject:"sunshine pop" drums

While you can use author: and subject: on their own, you can't do this with year: Also put the word or phrase right after the colon with no spaces between them.

Scope:

To further limit your search, you can select the parts of TweeNet to be search. Excluding the mailing list archives usually narrows the results quite a bit.

• Indiepop List The postings in the archives of the Indiepop mailing list.
• Shalala List The postings in the archives of the Shalala mailing list.
• Directory The entries in the Indiepop Directory.
• Polls The individual poll votes, this doesn't exclude the main poll result pages.
• All other pages Any other pages, bands, labels etc.

Results:

At the top we may display up to five results we consider to be the best matches.

The icon in front of the page title indicates the type of page:
We only display up to 200 results, you should narrow your search or change the scope.

How do we rank pages? For the best bets we look in the title of a page only. Within the main results, each category has an weight (the numbers in brackets above) and higher weights are displayed first, that's why band and label pages are always at the top. Matches with the same weight are sorted by an internal Rank, which roughly tells us how well the search matched the page.

Google:

This feature is currently not available.

You can check the 'Use Google' checkbox to use Google's search engine rather the the internal TweeNet one. If this case you have to use the normal Google search syntax and the defined scope is no longer relevant. Google only returns the first ten searches through its Search web service. If you want more, go to Google proper and add site:www.twee.net in your search. Google and other search engines don't have access to all the data on TweeNet, so using our own engine should get you more results.

Known Issues:

When using Google for searching you may get an error 'The request failed with HTTP status 502: Bad Gateway.', this is when the Google service we are accessing is not working or the connection to it is broken. All you can do is try again later or use Google directly.

Just after 10 p.m. central European time you may experience a problem while search. This is when we run optimize our search engine and it was slow response times. We are working on this issue.

Browser Search Engines:

You can add the TweeNet search to your Firefox 2 search engines. Right click this link and save it to the directory 'searchplugins' in your FireFox installation folder. On a Mac this seems to be under '/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles//xxx.default/searchplugins' Restart Firefox and TweeNet should show up as a new Search Engine.

In Internet Explorer 7, click on 'Find More Search Providers...' in the search drop down box, in the yellow 'Create your own' box type 'http://www.twee.net/search.aspx?qa=TEST' in the first and 'TweeNet' in the second text field. Finally click 'Install'.