Helpful tips to optimize your searches
Follow the suggestions below to achieve the best possible search results:
Tip #1
Use lowercasing to avoid problem with special characters.
Tip #2
DART's default search is an OR search (e.g., investment hedge will return all results that contain investment, hedge, or both). See Tip #5 below for additional tips on using Boolean operators to refine your search.
Tip #3
Use the root word (e.g., manufacture rather than manufactured or manufacturing) for broader search results. (DART automatically uses stemming to find variations of the root word.)
Tip #4
DART's default search capabilities include a predefined set of synonyms (e.g., nfp would return the same search results as not-for-profit).
If DART does not provide the search result you would expect for a commonly used synonym pair, send us an e-mail to dart@deloitte.com to propose its addition to our synonym list.
Tip #5
Use Boolean operators to limit or refine your search results, examples include:
Operator | Search Term | Result | Illustrative Results |
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AND | investment AND hedge | Returns all hits that contain both investment and hedge irrespective of proximity, order, etc. |
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OR | investment OR hedge | Returns all hits that contain investment or hedge or both terms |
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NOT | investment NOT hedge | Returns hits where the term investment is present but the term hedge is not |
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* | invest* | Multiple character wildcard. Returns hits with any combination of characters following invest |
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" " | "net investment" | Returns hits containing the exact phrase net investment |
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~ | “investment hedge”~5 | Proximity search; returns hits where the terms investment and hedge are within five words of each other in that order | …investment companies (including hedge funds)… |