Here are some tips for formulating queries:
- Multiple consecutive words are treated as a phrase; they must appear in the same order within a matching document.
- Queries are case-insensitive, so you can type your query in uppercase or lowercase.
- You can use Boolean operators (AND, OR, and NOT) to specify additional search information. For example, pets OR dogs AND cats will find pages that contain the word pets, or both dogs and cats.
- The wildcard character (*) can match words with a given prefix. The search swim* finds the terms swim, swimmers, swimming and so on.
- Certain punctuation marks, such as the period (.), colon (:), and semicolon (;) are ignored during a search.
- To search for specially treated characters such as &, |, ^, #, @, $, (, and ) in a query, enclose the query in quotation marks (").
- You can search for any word except for those in the exception list (e.g., a, an, and, as, and other common words), which are ignored during a search.
- Words in the exception list are treated as placeholders in search queries. For example, if you searched for "Skiing for Beginners", the results could give you "Skiing for Beginners" and "Skiing and Beginners", because for is a word in the exception list.
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