THE SEARCH CENTER

IBM, Google and Pico will search all of the pages on our site, except for on-line databases — you must visit the  Commercial Division,  Elections Division  or  other databases  to perform these individual database queries.

PicoSearch provides for searching all of the pages on our site. It does not search our on-line databases--you must visit the Commercial Division, Elections Division and any other databases to perform these searches.

Simply type a few words describing what you are looking for in the box above, and click SEARCH. You can also search for combined terms (exact phrases) by surrounding them in quotes.

Example searches include:

"hunting dogs" Catahoula   |   address contact information   | "political candidates" governor "Louisiana"

A sequence of words not in quotes specifies implicitly an OR and Picosearch will retrieve the best documents that match the query by weighting the results. There is no need for a logical AND: if all the words are found in the documents, that document will be weighted higher than a document which contains only a couple of those words. Picosearch uses a Fuzzy-Match algorithm: it weights all of the words that are searched for so that you get the best match for the information that you are looking for.