| Some examples: |
| Tom Jerry |
Find documents containing either "Tom", "Jerry" or both, anywhere
in the document |
| Tom or Jerry |
Same as above |
| "Tom Jerry" |
Find any document containing "Tom Jerry", as a sentence |
| Tom and Jerry |
Find any document containing both "Tom" and "Jerry", anywhere in
the text |
| (Tom and Jerry) and not dog |
Documents containing both Tom and Jerry anywhere in the text,
but excluding the word "dog" |
| Tom near Jerry |
Documents containing Tom and followed by Jerry in the next 4 words or so |
| Tom* |
Documents containing words starting with Tom. |
| sing** |
Documents containing variations of the word, eg: sing, sang, sung... |