The descriptions of searches below do not include any of the query expansion or ranking techniques that are employed in basic search. Except where otherwise noted, all matches are case-insensitive.
Query | Expected Behavior |
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Dog | Searches for documents containing any stem variant of Dog. |
<WORD> Dog | Searches for documents containing Dog as specified exactly with no stemming or lowercasing. This is the only case-sensitive form of search. |
Big <PHRASE> Dog | Searches for documents containing the exact phrase big dog without stemming. |
“Big Dog” | Same as Big <PHRASE> Dog. |
cat AND dog | Searches for documents containing stem variants of cat and dog. Equivalent to cat <AND> dog. |
cat <ALL> dog | Same as cat AND dog. |
cat OR dog | Searches for documents containing stem variants of cat or dog. |
cat, dog | Same as cat OR dog. |
cat <ANY> dog | Same as cat OR dog. |
cat <ACCRUE> dog | Same as cat OR dog. |
cat NOT dog | Searches for documents containing stem variants of cat but not containing stem variants of dog. |
cat AND NOT dog | Same as cat NOT dog. |
cat NEAR dog | Finds stem variants of cat occurring near dog (default is within 25 words). |
cat NEAR/15 dog | Finds stem variants of cat within 15 words of dog. |
cat <ORDER><NEAR/15> dog | Finds stem variants of cat within 15 words before dog. Can also use more convenient syntax cat <ORDER NEAR/15> dog. |
cat <ORDER> dog | Finds stem variants of cat anywhere before dog. |
cat <SENTENCE> dog | Finds stem variants of cat within 10 words of dog. |
cat <PARAGRAPH> dog | Finds stem variants of cat within 50 words of dog. |
cat <XYZ> dog | Finds stem variants of cat and dog. The unsupported operator XYZ is ignored. |
cat* | Finds all documents containing terms that start with cat, such as caterpillar. |
*cat | Finds all documents with terms that end in cat such as tomcat. |
*cat* | Finds all documents with terms that contain cat such as tomcats. Mid-string wildcard expressions must contain at least three characters (for example, *abc* is legal but *bc* is not). |
dog * | Finds documents containing stem variants of dog. The singleton wildcard is treated as stray punctuation. |
dog cat bird | Finds documents containing stem variants of all three terms, dog, cat, and bird. (Bag of Words mode) |
big dog AND bird | Finds documents containing the phrase big dog, and stem variants of the term bird. (Query Operators mode with implicit phrase construction) |
dog cat +bird | Finds documents containing stem variants of bird. The rank is boosted for documents containing stem variants of dog or cat. The words dog and cat are not joined into a phrase in Internet Style mode. |
+dog -cat bird | Finds documents that contain stem variants of dog but do not contain stem variants of cat, and ranks documents with both dog and bird highest. |
bird -cat | Finds documents that contain stem variants of bird but do not contain stem variants of cat. |
bag-of-words | Searches for documents containing stem variants of the three terms: bag, of, and words. Punctuation marks are treated as spaces when quotation marks are not present. |
“Mr. Jones” | Searches for the phrase mr. jones. Punctuation marks are considered part of the search string if they are included within quoted phrases. |