| Use: |
To Find: |
Example: |
| " " |
a phrase |
"World Wide Web" |
| and |
all words or phrases
(narrows search)
|
San Francisco and earthquake |
| or |
either words or phrases
(broadens search) |
AIDS or acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| and not |
first word but not the second
(narrows search) |
war and not nuclear |
| ( ) |
words combined with multiple operators (and, or, and not) |
(women or female) and (leaders or rulers or prime ministers) |
| * |
any word with the same
beginning letters |
dost*
[finds Dostoevsky, Dostoevskii] |
| near |
words near each other
(within 10 words) |
hackers near security |
| within n |
words within any number of each other |
guitar within 15 blues |