Each search term may be preceded by the standard Boolean operators not, and, or or. If you search for "apples not pears", you'll find all documents containing the word
"apples" except those documents which also contain the word "pears". If you type in "and fruit and apples and pears", you'll find only those documents which contain all three
search terms. The default value is or. Thus, a search for "fruit apples pears" would return pages with at least one of the three terms.
A search on "apples -fruit" is equivalent to
the first example, and "+fruit +apples +pears" will return the same documents as the second.
If a search term has at least one capital letter, like "London", the search will be
case sensitive with respect to that word - that is, only documents containing "London" will be found. On the other hand, lowercase words like "london" will generate hits from
"London", "LONDON", or "londON".
To group a collection of words, use quotes. For example, the query "WebObjects SiteSearch" (quotes included) would not generate
a hit from "WebObjects will release SiteSearch v2.0 soon." Without quotes, the sentence would count. Boolean operators can also act on quotations: a search on '+the +kitten not "the
kitten"' would return only those documents where "the" and "kitten" appear separately.
SiteSearch v2.0 finds words, not strings. A search for "in" would turn up only
that word, not "bin", "inside", or "acquaintance". To perform a string search, preface your term with the dollar sign - a query on "$in" would find all words listed
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