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Search Engine 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:
- information
retrieval
- finds documents
containing 'information' or 'retrieval'
- information
or retrieval
- same as above
- information
and retrieval
- finds documents
containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'
- information
not retrieval
- finds documents
containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'
- (information
not retrieval) and WAIS
- finds documents
containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'
- web*
- finds documents
containing words starting with 'web'
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