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Using Boolean Operators
Each search term may be preceded by one of 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.

Phrase Searching
Use this option when searching for titles!
To search for an exact phrase or collection of words, enclose your search text in quotation marks (" "). For example, the query "Church History" (including the quotation marks) would generate a hit from a document containing "Church History and Theology", but not from one containing "History of the Church". Without the quotation marks, however, both documents would be found.

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.

String Searches
By default, this search facility looks for 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 above.

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