Advanced Search TechniquesAdvanced Search TechniquesBy default, if a search query is entered without any operators between words, each word must be present in a document (body section or meta info) in order for it to show up in the search results page.
To increase the accuracy of a search or narrow down the list of results, you can use special search query operators:
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The AND operator, or + (plus) requires the word following the operator to be present in a document in order for it to qualify as a matching result. |
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As important as it might be to require a word to exist in a search query, it may be just as important to provide words that you do not want to be present in a search. This is where the NOT operator, or the - (minus) comes in handy. This helps remove documents by specifying words that may not have relevancy to your search. |
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The OR operator, or the | (pipe) is a condition that states that the word or phrase can be present but it is not required for a document to show up on the results page. This argument is useful to include additional search query parameters without completely removing other candidate matches . |
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Searching for a phrase means that the words between the quotes must show up in that exact order, adjacent to one another. |
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Searching with wild cards allows a query to search for a partial match of a word. The conditions are that a wildcard can only appear at the end of a search term, and at least two characters must be provided before the wildcard * (asterisk) argument. |