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Full-Text Search Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)Welcome to Full-Text Search! These FAQs will help you use Full-Text Search effectively. We will continue to enhance this service on the basis of user feedback. Please email your comments and suggestions for improvement to textsearch@sec.gov. Click here to go back to the search engine.
Full-Text Search will allow you to search the full text of all EDGAR filings submitted electronically in the last four years. The full text of a filing includes all data in the filing itself as well as all attachments (such as exhibits) to the filing. Full-Text Search uses a conceptual search engine to search and retrieve the information you need. Type your search in the "Search For Text" box and click the "Search" button. If you would like to enter a new search, click the "Reset" button and type your new search in the "Search For Text" box. When you receive your search results, click on the title of any document to view the full document. Yes, Full-Text Search provides an Advanced Search feature. To use this feature, click the "Advanced Search" link. Enter your search in the "Search For Text" box and select any optional features that you wish to use. After you have entered information on the Advanced Search screen, click the "Search" button. When you receive your search results, click on the title of any document to view the full document. After you click "Search", the results returned by the search engine are sorted in reverse chronological order, meaning that the most recent filings are at the top. You can narrow the results by adding new search terms, selecting a form type, and selecting a date range for the filing. Yes. Click the "Advanced Search" link. To limit your search to a specific form type, use the "In Form Type" pull-down menu to select a form type from the list provided. For information about form types, click on this link. Yes. Click the "Advanced Search" link. You may specify the number of search results (5, 10, 15, 20, 25) displayed on each page by using the "Results Per Page" pull-down menu and making your selection from the list. Yes. Click the "Advanced Search" link. To search by company name, select the "Company Name" option and type the name of the company in the box. Yes. Click the "Advanced Search" link. To search by CIK, select the "Central Index Key (CIK)" option and type the CIK number in the box. To find the CIK of the company, you can use the "CIK Lookup". Yes. Click the "Advanced Search" link. To search by industry, select the "Standard Industrial Classification" option and select an SIC Code from the pull-down menu. Yes. After performing a search, click the desired SIC Code appearing in your list of search results. 
Yes, you may search by date or by date range. First, select the "Advanced Search" link. Then: (You can also click on the calendar icons for the "Start Date" and "End Date" to access pop-up calendars that will allow you to select a date by clicking on it.) You can search Full-Text Search using "natural language" or Boolean search operators. Natural language searching allows you to search for a concept by using the language that you would use to express that concept to another person. Example: fluctuations in interest rates Enter the exact phrase in quotation marks. Example: "management discussion and analysis" The use of quotation marks will find documents containing the exact phrase "management discussion and analysis." The results set will not be limited only to that phrase, however, and may also include conceptually related phrases such as "managerial discussion & analysis." Yes. Capitalizing the proper name will cause the search engine to increase the relevance ranking of the documents containing the name. Example: Department of Energy Notes: Finding your search terms within the document: Boolean searching allows you to narrow, broaden, or limit a search by connecting search terms with Boolean operators such as AND, OR, and NOT. All Boolean operators must be typed in uppercase letters. Example: AND, OR, NOT The Boolean operator AND narrows your search by telling Autonomy that all terms connected by the AND operator must be contained in a document (but not necessarily in the same sentence or paragraph). These terms can appear in any order in the document. Example: software AND hardware The Boolean operator OR broadens your search by locating a document containing any of the terms connected by the OR operator. Example: trucks OR cars The Boolean operator NOT limits your search by locating documents that contain one term but not another term. Example: petroleum NOT gasoline This search will locate documents that contain the term "petroleum" but not the term "gasoline." You can use operator NEARn to locate documents that contain the terms you selected within "n" words, or fewer, of one another (where n is the number of words). Example: general NEAR1 motors The asterisk (*) is a wildcard symbol that searches for the root of a word followed by one or more characters. Example: communicat* This search will locate documents that contain terms such as communicate, communicates, communicated, communication, communications, and communicating. Links to "Parent Filing" and "Exhibits List" appear on the search results screen below each document summary, as appropriate. Full-Text Search includes the last four years of filings only. Decisions about expanding the range of filings available will be made on the basis of user feedback. Let us know what you think about Full-Text Search by e-mailing us at textsearch@sec.gov. We welcome your feedback regarding Full-Text Search. Please send us your ideas and suggestions at textsearch@sec.gov. The Full-Text Search Engine, by default, searches on the stems of words in the query. For instance, "securities" would get stemmed to "secur" and also find "security," "secure," "securing," and "secures." To turn this off, on the Advanced search menu page, deselect the "Use Stemming" checkbox and the search engine will not stem your query terms. A search on "securities" will only return "securities." Send an e-mail to the textsearch@sec.gov mailbox, telling us what you're trying to find and how you've been searching for it.
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