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Search Help |
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Machinery's search facility utilises sophisticated algorithms to ensure that
only the most appropriate results are returned. It performs searches in two content
areas simultaneously: the www.machinery.co.uk databases; and the World Wide Web
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Machinery Search Coverage |
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The Machinery database search covers all content on the Machinery website
and returns results from the following:
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Buyers Guide Suppliers by Category |
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Buyers Guide Suppliers by Company name |
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Used Machine/Equipment |
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News articles |
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Technology Zone Categories |
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Technology Zone Articles |
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Jobs |
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Optimised Internet Search |
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Machinery operates optimised Internet searching. This uses the entered search criteria
and searches the world wide web (Internet) for sites which match Machinery's optimisation
rules. These rules restrict results to only return relevant pages.
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Preferred Supplier |
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Basic entries on Machinery's website database for all appropriate organisations
is free. Direct access to all suppliers' contact information is not restricted in
any way for users looking for specific organisations by name. Similarly, all product
or service search results include all matching records but may require a second
click to display full listings. Inclusion of a company in any category is based
on data provided by that company and while Machinery takes every care to ensure
accuracy in the compilation of the data for the directory, the publisher cannot
accept responsibility for errors and omissions. Updates and correction can be made
to the online version by contacting
admin@machinery.co.uk
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Included in the site search is the optimised Internet Search (see above). Result
rankings and inclusion in the results is governed by the content and technology
of the suppliers' website pages as interrogated by the spider technology. The only
additional ranking of these results is where returned websites are a Machinery Buyers
Guide advertiser. These organisations are prioritised in all search results.
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Machinery's online Buyers Guide is an extended version of the printed annual directory
Machinery Buyers Guide. Suppliers advertising in current annual buyers guide, and
other selected suppliers advertising in Machinery magazine, are given priority in
the Buyers Guide search results. All the returned product or service search results
include all matching records from the buyers guide directory but may require a second
click to display full listings.
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Additional advertising and promotional
features are available to all suppliers. |
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Search Logic |
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The search is case insensitive, based on whole words (spaces, commas etc are ignored).
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Machinery utilises Boolean AND logic e.g. Production Engineer UK is represented
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Production and Engineer and UK with the appropriate matching results returned. Other
Boolean logic such as OR, NOT are allowed and can be entered as part of the search
criteria, these would supersede the default AND logic e.g. Automotive OR Aerospace
would return results matched to either Automotive or Aerospace.
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To obtain specific phrase rather than word matching then place double quotes around
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the text e.g. "Production engineer".
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Search Restrictions |
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A minimum of three characters is required. Wild card searching (using “*”) is not
permitted. |
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