Experience a better, quicker search! We listened to your feedback, keeping what you liked about search and improving upon what you did not.
Search now includes Analog.com results in the homepage search, navigation bar, and Advanced Search. You no longer need to use SOLR syntax or Boolean operators to get the results you are looking for. As you start typing, results will appear and continue to filter as you continue typing.
EngineerZone® (EZ) is powered by a new search engine with three excellent features to help you find your answers fast and it includes Analog.com search results.
- Natural Language Processing, the ability to understand text and spoken words in much the same way human beings can.
- Robust typo tolerance – Do not worry if you misspell a word. Typo tolerance allows users to make mistakes while typing and still find the words they’re looking for. This is done by matching words that are close in spelling.
- Highlighting & Snippeting - Search responses contain one or more highlighted results to easily show you how they matched your query.
The Home Page Search
Click in the Search Field:
- Popular Searches
- Brings a list of EngineerZone (EZ) popular searches.
- Featured Content
- Showcase three tiles of EngineerZone Featured Content. The first two tiles will be updated periodically to feature content.
- Need Help
- Quick links for Support
- Advanced Search
- Brings you to the Advanced Search page with your query result pre-filled.
- Ask a Question
- Let’s you do just that, Ask a Question. More to read on this in How to Ask a Question
Finding the Correct Forum and See More Results:
- From the home page, type Lt in the search field
- You are presented with Suggestions, Suggested Forums, EngineerZone, and Analog.com results related to the search criteria.
- Suggestions are a combination of your recent searches (if any and they match the query) and query suggestions created by the search engine that match your query.
- Suggested Forums are the Groups/forums where the results for you query reside. Typically the first Suggested Group result will be the best match.
- EngineerZone results list of groups with the most recent verified answers that match the letters or words typed. With the option to see more EngineerZone results.
- Analog.com results list the most recent content that matches the letters or words typed. With the option to see more Analog.com results.
- Advanced Search is available for every search
See More Results:
- From the home page, type ad9361 in the search field
- Click on See More EngineerZone Results, which will bring you to the Advanced Search page and allow you to add filters.
- You can further refine your search by choosing an option in the Groups, Forums & Libraries filter.
- From the home page, type ad9361 in the search field
- Clicking on See More Analog.com Results will bring you to the Advanced Search page, where you can add filters.
- You can further refine your search by choosing an option in the Product Categories, Resources, Industry or Technology Solutions,Tools and Models and Site Section.
- Connect directly with analog.com eShope to sample and buy products.
Using Advanced Search:
- Clicking Advanced Search will bring you to the Advanced Search page with your search query pre-filled.
- Click on the title or post description to open that search result.
- You can refine your search by clicking on the green tags or by using the filters to the left.
- To clear your filters one at a time by clicking the X or click Clear All to remove all filters
The Advanced Search can be accessed in the community header of other pages.
Searching in a Specific Group, Forum or Library Using Group Name Tag
IMPORTANT: If you initiate your search from a specific group, forum or library, the search will serve up content from your current location (group, forum or library) only.
- For example, navigate to the Power Management group/forum
- Click in the Search Field and the Group/Forum Name Tag of the Forum of your current location is automatically added.
- In the example below, the search criteria will only be searched in the Power Management Group/Forum
- Popular searches for the support forum and most recent forum threads with verified answers results are displayed
- Advanced Search, See more results are always available at the bottom of
Searching in a Specific Group, Forum or Library Using Group Name Tag and Keywords or Product Numbers
- In the example below, you can see I typed: spice next to Power Management in the search field
- The search results are displayed, including options to Filter by Group.
- To add an additional group filter, click on the desired group name, this will add the group to the search filter.
- Clicking on any of the Suggested search criteria will add the suggestion to the search field.
- EngineerZone search results are the most recent EngineerZone Verified Answer Threads within the forum first
- Analog.com search results are the most relevant content
- Advanced Search Option, See more EngineerZone and Analog.com results are displayed for every search
- Click on the X to remove the Support Forum tag for results from EngineerZone in its entirety.
Searching in a Specific Group, Forum or Library Using Keywords or Product Numbers
- Search using a keyword or product number
- Search will display results found in EgineerZone and analog.com
- Search Results promote options for the most recent verified forum threads for any support forum first
- Analog.com search results are for the most relevant content.
- The option to filter by the current forum will add the group name to the search field and change your results options for the current group only.
- Our new search is typo tolerant
- In the example below I typed DA7172.
- The search provided content based on the actual part number AD7172 and accounted for the multiple variations: AD7172-2, AD7172-2SDZ and AD7172/5/7-2
No Search Results:
- Displays hints to update your search criteria
- Most active groups/forums displayed