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These are the 10 most commonly searched terms on our site based on the last 100,000 searches.

1000+ jobs
323 hospital[External link graphic]
277 swimming lessons
272 zoning
255 property taxes
243 home owner grant
230 public skating
223 garbage
222 hotels
210 population
 

Example of search result

Searching our site is easy. Perform powerful searches without special operators or punctuation. Here are a few points to keep in mind:

The case of letters doesn't matter
All searches are case insensitive. This means you don't have to know whether a word is capitalized or not, or whether it is a title in all caps. For example, searching for “help” will match both “help” and “Help”.
Each word longer than two letters is treated as a prefix
A word on a Web page will match your search string if it begins with the same letters. Thus, “bread” matches “bread”, “breads”, “breaded”, “breading”, and “breadth”. (If you check the “Only match whole words” checkbox, then the whole word must match your string — that is, “bread” will only match “bread”.)
Words in a phrase must be near one another
When you enter more than one word to search for, web pages will be selected only if all the words you enter appear close to one another, typically in the same sentence or paragraph. Notice that this is different from most web searches, where pages are chosen if the words appear anywhere on a page.
The order of words in a phrase doesn't matter
If you enter more than one word, they will match a web page if the same words appear near one another in any order. For example, “Mount Everest” will match “Mount Everest”, “Everest Mountain”, and “that awesome mountain, the great Everest”.
Common words and numbers are ignored
Some words appear so commonly on web pages that the search engine ignores them.

Using Google to search our site

If you prefer to use Google to search the web, you can limit your searches to the City of Prince George's website by using the site: prefix. Here's an example you could type into Google's search input [External link graphic]:

site:www.city.pg.bc.ca public skating

This will return pages Google found in our site for “public skating”.

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