Enter a word or phrase to match (no double quotation marks "!).
Exact matches of your search word or phrase will be shown highlighted in context.
Click the "Options" tab to specify how many webpages and matches per page, amount of context to show and countries to search.
The options you select are saved in cookies and restored on your next visit.
Apostrophes may be embedded in your search terms: don't care.
Wildcards are not supported by Live Search.
Leave query field blank for random pages in the language selected.
Live Search supports a maximum of 1000 matches per query.
Occasionally Live Search is unavailable for a few seconds or minutes, or the WebAsCorpus server
is overloaded: be persistent!
Eventually alternate search terms (OR) and exclusion / inclusion criteria will
be supported to enhance search efficiency.
Note also...
the results include some document statistics – total number of words and paragraphs,
average number of words per paragraph as a rough indication of "textiness"
documents can be downloaded in text format with UTF-8 encoding
Other options (* not implemented yet)
Context (chars before/after)
Maximum webpages to analyze
Maximum matches to show per source webpage
SafeSearch filtering (turn off to avoid filtering out texts with "questionable" words.
Country / countries* Hold down CTRL-key
to select multiple countries
Feedback and suggestions encouraged,
especially regarding performance with non-Roman scripts.
http://webascorpus.org/searchwac_old.html ver. 9 November 2007