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The search box matches page titles, headings, body text, descriptions, keywords, author, and words from the page URL. A few things worth knowing (there’s also a “Search tips” panel in the app itself):

  • All words must match. climate policy finds pages containing both words. Use OR for either (climate OR weather) and - to exclude (climate -policy).
  • Quotes search an exact phrase: "climate policy".
  • Field search: title:climate and author:hopper match those fields; site:example.com matches a whole site across subdomains while domain:www.example.com is an exact host; year:2021 (or year:[2020 TO 2023]), month:202103, and modified:2015 (Last-Modified year) filter by date; type:pdf, lang:en, status:200, and collection:demo filter by media type, language, HTTP status, and collection.
  • Grouping and boosting: (climate OR weather) risk, and climate^2 change ranks “climate” matches higher.

Title matches rank above body matches, and searches are case-insensitive.

The results page is faceted: a sidebar shows counts by collection, year, site, type, and language, and clicking one refines the search (applied filters appear as removable chips). A month timeline sits above the results — click a bar to filter to that month. Repeat captures of the same URL collapse into a single result marked “captured N times”, and results are paginated. The homepage also offers “browse by year” and “top sites” entry points into search.

Search results for “report”: a month timeline across the top, a facet sidebar (collection, year, site, type) on the left, and hit-highlighted snippets on the right

Crawl thumbnails

Section titled “Crawl thumbnails”

Crawls carry a representative image, cached as a small thumbnail at index time. It’s taken from the crawl’s home-page og:image; failing that, the largest content image the page embeds; and failing that — for JS-rendered sites whose saved HTML lists no images — the largest captured image on the crawl’s own domain (skipping icons/sprites and full-res originals). Homepage collection cards and the crawl detail page show one; the collection detail page shows a grid of its member crawls, each with its own image — conveying that a collection spans multiple crawls of multiple sites. Crawls without an image fall back to a CSS placeholder. A curator can pin a specific image with indice crawl set <crawl-id> --image <file> (kept across reindexing).