AND
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Antarctica AND mountain climb
Finds only documents containing both Antarctica and mountain climb plus all the stemmed variants, such as mountain
climbing.
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<CONTAINS>
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Finds documents containing the specified words in a document
field. The words must be in the exact same sequential and contiguous order.
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You can use wildcards. Only alphanumeric values.
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Does not rank documents for relevance
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Title <CONTAINS> higher profit
Finds documents containing the phrase higher profit in
the title. Ignores documents with profits higher in the
title.
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<ENDS>
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Title <ENDS> draft
Finds documents with titles ending in draft.
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equals (=)
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Finds documents in which a document field matches a specific date or
numeric value
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Created = 6-30-06
Finds documents created on June 30, 2006.
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greater than (>)
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Finds documents in which a document field is greater than a specific
date or numeric value.
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Created > 6-30-06
Finds documents created after June 30, 2006.
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greater than or equal to (>=)
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Finds documents in which a document field is greater than or equal to
a specific date or numeric value.
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Created >= 6-30-06
Finds documents created on or after June 30, 2006.
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less than (<)
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Finds documents in which a document field is less than a specific date
or numeric value.
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Created < 6-30-06 Finds documents created before June 30, 2006.
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less than or equal to (<=)
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Finds documents in which a document field is less than or equal to a
specific date or numeric value.
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Created <= 6-30-06 Finds documents created on or before June 30,
2006.
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<MATCHES>
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Finds documents in which a string in a document field matches
the character string you specify.
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Ignores documents that contain partial matches.
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Does not rank documents for relevance.
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<MATCHES> employee
Finds documents containing employee or any of its stemmed variants such
as employees.
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<NEAR>
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Finds documents that contain the specified words. The closer the terms
are to each other in the document, the higher the document's score.
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stock <NEAR> purchase
Finds any document containing both stock and purchase, but gives a higher
score to a document that has stock purchase than to one that has purchase
supplies and stock up.
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<NEAR/N>
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Finds documents in which two or more specified words are within N number
of words from each other. N can be an integer up to 1000. Also ranks the documents
for relevance based on the words' proximity to each other.
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stock <NEAR> purchase
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Finds documents containing the phrases stock purchase and
purchase stock
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Ignores documents containing phrases like purchase supplies
and stock up because stock and purchase do not appear next to each other.
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When N is 2 or greater, finds documents that contain the
words within the range and gives a higher score for documents which have the
words closer together.
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NOT
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Finds documents that do not contain a specific word or phrase.
Note –
You can use NOT to modify the OR or the AND operator.
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surf AND NOT beach
Finds documents containing the word surf but not the word beach.
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OR
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apples OR oranges
Finds documents containing either apples or oranges.
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<PHRASE>
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Finds documents that contain the specified phrase. A phrase is a grouping
of two or more words that occur in a specific order.
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<PHRASE> (rise "and" fall)
Finds documents that include the entire phrase rise and fall. The and
is in quotes to force the search to interpret it as a literal, not as an operator.
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<STARTS>
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Title <STARTS> Corp
Finds documents with titles starting with Corp, such as Corporate and
Corporation.
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<STEM>
(English only)
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Finds documents that contain the specified word and its variants.
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<STEM> plan
Finds documents that contain plan, plans, planned, planning, and other
variants with the same meaning stem. Ignores similarly spelled words such
as planet and plane that don't come from the same stem.
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<SUBSTRING>
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Finds documents in which part or all of a string in a document
field matches the character string you specify.
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Similar to <MATCHES>, but can match on a partial string
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Does not work with wildcards.
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Does not rank documents for relevance.
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<SUBSTRING> employ
Finds documents that can match on all or part of employ, so it can succeed
with ploy.
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<WILDCARD>
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Finds documents that contain the wildcard characters in the
search string. You can use this to get words that have some similar spellings
but which would not be found by stemming the word.
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Some characters, such as * and ?, automatically indicate
a wildcard-based search, so you don't have to include the word <WILDCARD>
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<WILDCARD> plan
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Finds documents that contain plan, plane, and planet as well
as any word that begins with plan, such as planned, plans, and planetopolis.
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See the next section for more details and examples.
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<WORD>
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Finds documents that contain the specified word.
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<WORD> theme
Finds documents that contain theme, thematic, themes, and other words
that stem from theme.
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