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+ | A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in every row returned. | - | A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any row returned. | | By default (when neither plus nor minus is specified) the word is optional, but the rows that contain it will be rated higher. | < > | These two operators are used to change a word's contribution to the relevance value that is assigned to a row. The < operator decreases the contribution and the > operator increases it. See the example below. | ( ) | Parentheses are used to group words into subexpressions. | ~ | A leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word's contribution to the row relevance to be negative. It's useful for marking noise words. A row that contains such a word will be rated lower than others, but will not be excluded altogether, as it would be with the - operator. | * | An asterisk is the truncation operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word, not prepended. | " | The phrase, that is enclosed in double quotes ", matches only rows that contain this phrase literally, as it was typed. |
And here are some examples: apple banana | find rows that contain at least one of these words. | +apple +juice | ... both words. | +apple macintosh | ... word "apple", but rank it higher if it also contain "macintosh". | +apple -macintosh | ... word "apple" but not "macintosh". | +apple +(>pie <strudel) | ... "apple" and "pie", or "apple" and "strudel" (in any order), but rank "apple pie" higher than "apple strudel". | apple* | ... "apple", "apples", "applesauce", and "applet". | "some words" | ... "some words of wisdom", but not "some noise words". |
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