Search tips

AND - Finds documents containing all of the specified words or phrases. Peanut AND butter finds documents with both the word peanut and the word butter.

OR - Finds documents containing at least one of the specified words or phrases. Peanut OR butter finds documents containing either peanut or butter. The found documents could contain both items, but not necessarily.

AND NOT - Excludes documents containing the specified word or phrase. Peanut AND NOT butter finds documents with peanut but not containing butter. NOT must be used with another operator, like AND. Search does not accept ‘peanut NOT butter’; instead, specify peanut AND NOT butter.

NEAR - Finds documents containing both specified words or phrases within 10 words of each other. Peanut NEAR butter would find documents with peanut butter, but probably not any other kind of butter.

* - The asterisk is a wildcard; any letters can take the place of the asterisk. Bass* would find documents with bass, basset and bassinet. You must type at least three letters before the *. You can also place the * in the middle of a word. This is useful when you're unsure about spelling. Colo*r would find documents that contain color and colour.

( ) - Use parentheses to group complex Boolean phrases. For example, (peanut AND butter) AND (jelly OR jam) finds documents with the words ‘peanut butter and jelly’ or 'peanut butter and jam' or both.

title:text - Finds pages that contain the specified word or phrase in the page title (which appears in the title bar of most browsers). The search title:sunset would find pages with sunset in the title.

url:text - Finds pages with a specific word or phrase in the URL. Use url:garden to find all pages on all servers that have the word garden anywhere in the host name, path, or filename.