A search word may contain one or more asterisks, which are wildcards matching any number of letters, including none. Collocations of words may also be searched for. The indexed form of a word may differ from its form in the text if the text is clearly in error, but the original text form will always be shown in contexts. One of the indexes is of English word-forms found in English translations of several of the texts. Searching may be restricted to any subset of the texts.
All searches are insensitive to case differences.
Non-wildcard searches are sensitive to accents, hyphens, apostrophes and periods. The indexes are NOT lemmatised, i.e. terminally inflected forms are not linked. This English index needs to be extended to other texts, and an index by thesaurus entry numbers would be interesting. The compiler intends to continue to add Ulster Irish texts to the textbase. The first Internet release was in late 1995.