Search Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

pine trim

finds pages containing 'pine' or 'trim'

pine or trim

same as above

pine and trim

finds pages containing both 'pine' and 'trim'

pine not trim

finds pages containing 'pine' but not 'trim'

(pine not trim) and floor

finds pages containing 'floor', plus 'pine' but not 'trim'

hard *

finds pages containing words starting with 'hard' such as hardware or hardwood

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