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| Manufacturing Computer Solutions' (MCS) search facility utilises sophisticated algorithms to ensure that only the most appropriate results are returned. It performs searches in two content areas simultaneously: the www.mcsolutions.co.uk databases; and the World Wide Web (Internet). |
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MCS Search Coverage |
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The MCS database search covers all content on the MCS website and returns results from the following:
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IT Shortlist Suppliers by Category |
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IT Shortlist Suppliers by Company name |
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News articles |
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Reference Zone Categories |
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Reference Zone Articles |
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Jobs |
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Optimised Internet Search |
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MCS operates optimised Internet searching. This uses the entered search criteria and searches the world wide web (Internet) for sites which match MCS' optimisation rules. These rules restrict results to only return relevant pages.
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| Preferred Supplier |
| Basic entries on MCS's website database for all appropriate organisations is free. Direct access to all suppliers' contact information is not restricted in any way for users looking for specific organisations by name. Similarly, all product or service search results include all matching records but may require a second click to display full listings. Inclusion of a company in any category is based on data provided by that company and while MCS takes every care to ensure accuracy in the compilation of the data for the directory, the publisher cannot accept responsibility for errors and omissions. Updates and correction can be made to the online version by contacting the administrator
Included in the site search is the optimised Internet Search (see above). Result rankings and inclusion in the results is governed by the content and technology of the suppliers' website pages as interrogated by the spider technology. The only additional ranking of these results is where returned websites are an IT Shortlist advertiser. These organisations are prioritised in all search results.
MCS' online IT Shortlist is an extended version of the printed Shortlist Issue. Suppliers advertising in the current Shortlist, and other selected suppliers advertising in the Manufacturing Computer Solutions magazine, are given priority in the search results. All the returned product or service search results include all matching records from the Shortlist directory but may require a second click to display full listings.
Additional advertising and promotional features are available to all suppliers.
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Search Logic |
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The search is case insensitive, based on whole words (spaces, commas etc are ignored).
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MCS utilises Boolean AND logic e.g. Project manager UK is represented as
Project and manager and UK with the appropriate matching results returned. Other Boolean logic such as OR, NOT are allowed and can be entered as part of the search criteria, these would supersede the default AND logic e.g. Automotive OR Aerospace would return results matched to either Automotive or Aerospace.
To obtain specific phrase rather than word matching then place double quotes around
the text e.g. "Project manager".
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Search Restrictions |
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A minimum of three characters is required. Wild card searching (using “*”) is not permitted. |
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