- Query: [space shuttle] will give you only documents with the phrase "space shuttle".
- Use of "or": [space or shuttle]to return pages with the word "space", the word "shuttle"
or both words.
- Use of "and": [space and shuttle] to get documents with both words "space" and "shuttle" contained
within.
- Use of "and not": [space and shuttle] to return pages with the word "space", but not the word
"shuttle".
- Use of "near": [space near shuttle] sorts results in order of proximity of the word "space" to the
word "shuttle". The closer the words, the higher the rank.
- Use of parenthesis "(...)": [(space or shuttle) and not launch] will return documents with
the word "space", the word "shuttle", or both words, but no documents with the word "launch". This is different
than the search [space or shuttle and not launch] actually [space or (shuttle and not launch)].
- Noise Words: These are words skipped by the search engine.
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- Prefix Wild Cards "*": [launch*] returns documents with words with the prefix "launch",
like "launch", "launches", and "launched".
- Form Wild Cards "**": [fly**] returns documents derived from the word "fly", like "fly",
"flying", and "flew".
- Free-Text Queries: [$contents What time is the next space shuttle launch?] will pick out
the nouns from the sentence and return documents containing those nouns.
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