Advanced Search Tips
General search queries
You can find documents by searching for words and phrases in their contents. You can even search for document properties such as the document's name or author for PDF and Microsoft Word files. The simplest kind of search query is a single word. For example, if you search for "operation" the search engine returns all pages and documents that contain the word "operation" in their contents. Search queries are not case sensitive.

Search by document title
If you want to search for a PDF document whose title is "Maintenance record", you can specify a search query like: @DocTitle "Maintenance record".

Search by document author
If you want to search all documents written by a particular author, your search query would be: @DocAuthor =Jay Shah

Boolean queries
AND
Example: Jain AND Bhawan
Result: Documents with both the words "Jain" and "Bhawan"

OR
Example: Jain OR Bhawan
Result: Documents with the words "Jain" or "Bhawan"

AND NOT
Example: Jain AND NOT Bhawan
Result: Documents with the word "Jain" but not "Bhawan"

NEAR
Example: Jain NEAR Bhawan
Result: Documents with the word "Jain" within 50 words of "Bhawan"

More complex example:
Example: Jain OR Jainism AND NOT (Rental NEAR Bhawan)
Result: Documents with the word "Jain" or "Jainism" and not the words "Rental" and "Bhawan" if they are within 50 words of each other

Alternate word-form queries
Inflected forms
Example: swim**
Result: Documents with the word "swim", "swam", "swum" etc

Prefix forms
Example: teach*
Result: Documents with the word "teach", "teacher", "teachings" etc

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