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Boolean Searches

The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:

• analysis data
  Find rows that contain at least one of the two words.
• +analysis +data
  Find rows that contain both words.
• +analysis data
  Find rows that contain the word “analysis”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “data”.
• +analysis -data
  Find rows that contain the word “analysis” but not “data”.
• +analysis ~data
  Find rows that contain the word “analysis”, but if the row also contains the word “data”, rate it lower than if row does not.
• +analysis +(>data <mining)
  Find rows that contain the words “analysis” and “data”, or “analysis” and “mining” (in any order), but rank “analysis data” higher than “analysis mining”
• design*
  Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”.
• "some words"
  Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows 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 quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.