Use the
NEAR
operator for unordered proximity searches.
That is,
term1
can appear within
num
words before or after
term2
in the document.
For example, if a user specifies:
"Mark Twain" NEAR/8 Hartford
Then both of these sentences will be considered matches:
"Mark Twain wrote some of his best books in Hartford." "Tour the Hartford, Connecticut home where Mark Twain lived and worked from 1874 to 1891."
Phrases are treated as one word. In the first sentence, for example, the
software starts counting with the word
"wrote"
(not
"Twain"
).