- apple banana
Find results that contain at least one of the two words.
- +apple +juice
Find results that contain both words.
- +apple macintosh
Find results that contain the word apple, but rank results higher if they also contain macintosh.
- +apple -macintosh
Find results that contain the word apple but not macintosh.
- +apple ~macintosh
Find results that contain the word apple, but if the results also contains the word macintosh, rate it lower than if results does not. This is softer than a search for +apple -macintosh, for which the presence of macintosh causes the results not to be returned at all.
- +apple +(>turnover <strudel)
Find results that contain the words apple and turnover, or apple and strudel (in any order), but rank apple turnover higher than apple strudel.
- apple*
Find results that contain words such as apple, apples, applesauce, or applet.
- "some words"
Find results that contain the exact phrase some words (for example, results that contain some words of wisdom but not some noise words). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotes that enclose the search string itself.
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