What is the difference between Keyword Search, Advanced Search and Natural Language Search?
A. Keyword Search and Advanced Search allow you to break up your search into key words and to use connectors such as and, or and not to refine your search. With Natural Language Search, you type your search as a sentence or phrase without breaking it up into smaller search terms. Keyword Search and Advanced Search will also display your search results different than Natural Language. With Keyword and Advanced, your cases are displayed in a split screen view with a list of cases on the left and the full text of the opinion on the right. Your search results in Natural Language are displayed by series with the case title and a portion of the text from where your hit is located in the opinion. To view a case, click on the case title. Keyword Search and Advanced Search are easy to use even if you have never done this type of term searching before. Simply type in the key words or phrases that describe your search separated by a space. You do not need to use connectors but here are some sampl