Choosing the right search terms is the key to finding the information you need. Start with the obvious, if you're looking for general information on prime minister, try prime minister. However, if there are too many results returned, you may narrow down with multiple search terms; you'll do better with prime minister speech than prime minister.

SearchHub is NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For example, searches for prime minister , Prime Minister, and PrIME MiNISter will all return the same results.

By default, SearchHub only returns pages that include all of your search terms. There is no need to include "and" between terms. Keep in mind that the order in which the terms are typed will affect the search results.

SearchHub spell checking automatically looks at your query and checks to see if you are using any typo keyword as a search query. A search on malaysio will be corrected to malaysia. The spell check is based on occurrences of all words on the indexed text and content, it is able to suggest common spellings for proper nouns (names and places) that might not appear in a standard spell check program or dictionary.

SearchHub uses stemming technology. Thus, when appropriate, it will search not only for your search terms, but also for words that are similar to some or all of those terms. Any variants of your terms that were searched for will be highlighted in the snippet of text accompanying each result.

By default, SearchHub looks for all the categories in its index, if you would like to search for information from a particular category only, you may click the Category Label on top of the screen to narrow down your search.

You may simply change the display language of the SearchHub, currently the available language are English, Bahasa Malaysia and Chinese.

If you think 10 results returned per page is insufficient, you can change the search preference, the current options include 10, 20, 50 and 100 results return per page.

SearchHub is able to suggest the search query to you while you're typing the search query, this feature can be enable in the preference page.

To find pages that include either or neither of two search terms, add an uppercase OR or NOT between the terms. putrajaya OR kuala lumpur to search information to contain either putrajaya or kuala lumpur.

SearchHub lets you search the attribute of an indexed content. title:rancangan malaysia would return all document that has the query in the title. information to contain either putrajaya or kuala lumpur. The attribute supports: title:, contents: and filetype:.

To search for a particular filetype in SearchHub. A search on filetype:doc minutes will only return information a Microsoft Word document.

SearchHub's Image Search searches the images that have been indexed and available for viewing. Enter a query in the image search box, then click on the "Search" button. On the results page, just click on the thumbnail to see a larger version of the image, as well as the page on which the image is located.

You can do a lot more with SearchHub than just typing in search terms. With Advanced Search, you can search only for pages:

that contain ALL the search terms you type in

that contain the exact phrase you type in

that contain at least one of the words you type in

that do NOT contain any of the words you type in

written in a certain language

created in a certain file format

that have been updated within a certain period of time

within a certain domain

If you want to search not only for your search term but also for its synonyms, place the tilde sign ("~") immediately in front of your search term.

SearchHub takes a snapshot of page examined as it crawls the web and caches these as a backup in case the original page is unavailable. If you click on the "Cached" link, you will see the web page as it was when we indexed it. The cached content is the content SearchHub uses to judge whether the page is a relevant match for your query.