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Use quotation marks to look for a complete phrase.
Type OR to find all instances of either one word or another.
Type surf AND the Net to find all instances of surf and the Net.
Type NEAR, rather than AND, to find words close to each other.
Type surf AND NOT the Net to find all instances of surf but not surf the Net.
Query Examples
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Example
Results
Both terms on the same page
access & basic
Pages with both the words access AND basic
Either term in a page
cgi | isapi
Pages with the word cgi OR isapi
The first term without the second term
access &! basic
Pages with the word access AND NOT basic
Both terms in the same page, close together
excel ~ project
Pages with the word excel NEAR project
Prefix wildcard
comput*
Finds words with prefix comput, such as computer, computing and so on
Form wildcard
sink**
Finds all forms, including: singular, plural, past, present, future
Headlines only
@DocTitle box*
Pages with words that have the prefix box in the headline
Pages not matching a property value
not @size = 100
Pages that are not 100 bytes
Pages that contain specific words
light, bulb
Files with words that best match the words being searched for
Pages that contain weighted prefixes, words, and phrases
invent*, light[50], bulb[10], "light bulb"[400]
Files that contain words prefixed by invent, the words light, bulb, and the phrase light bulb (the terms are weighted)
Files modified after a certain date
@write > 96/2/14 10:00:00
Files modified after February 14, 1996 at 10:00:00 GMT
Files modified after a relative date
@write > -1d2h
Files modified in the last 26 hours (m months, w weeks, d days, n minutes, s seconds)
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