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Quotes or punctuation bind phrases:

"tuna fish pizza"
tuna.fish.pizza

The plus sign makes a term required. Use this to force certain keywords when searching with "match any term".

rocky road +flavor +"ice cream"

The pipe makes a term optional. Use this to give extra weight to optional keywords.

"i will make you hurt" |lyrics |"johnny cash"

The minus sign makes a term forbidden. Pages containing that term will be removed from the result set.

fdse help -"full-duplex switched ethernet" -netcard

Attributes search a part of the page or record:

host:xav.com
domain:www.xav.com
url:xav.com/scripts
+domain:xav.com -url:xav.com/scripts

The asterisk matches zero to four non-space characters:

col*ring book

This search engine finds whole words by default; a search for "ncc17" will not match "NCC-1701". For partial searches, enable substring matching, or use wildcards "ncc*17*".