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Term Queries
Phrase Queries
Searching Specific Fields
Boolean queries
Grouping
Proximity searches
Special characters
Term queries
A term is just a simple word. To find pages containing the term coconut, use:
You can specify any number of terms, eg:
Phrase queries
To search for a phrase rather than a single word, enclose your phrase in double quotes. eg:
Wildcards
? stands for any single character, eg coco? will match cocos and cocoa
* stands for any number of characters, eg coco* will
match cocos, cocoa and coconut
A wildcard cannot be used as the first character of a term.
Boolean operators
The default operator is AND - that is if no other boolean
operator is present in your query, the AND operator will
be used to join your terms. Other boolean operators are OR,
NOT, + and -
Find pages containing the terms coconut or coir:
Find pages containing the term coconut, but without the term coir:
Find pages containing the terms coconut and coir, coconut must be present
Find pages containing the term coconut, coir must not be present
Grouping
Query clauses can be grouped using brackets to form sub-queries.
Proximity searches
Proximity searches can be used to specify that your search terms should found within
a specific distance from each other. The tilde ~ symbol is used for this. The following
search will find pages in which the words coconut and cocos appear within 10
words of each other
Special characters
Special characters must be escaped with a \ character. The special characters are:
+ - & | ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \
So to search for pages about rope-making, you would use: