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Jul 25, 2008

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Operator	Action	Example
plus sign (+)	Requires a word or phrase (there should not be a space between the plus sign and the required term)	"Undergraduate Admissions" +international
minus sign (-)	Excludes documents containing the word or phrase (there should not be a space between the minus sign and the term being excluded)	"Undergraduate Admissions" - international
quotation (" ")	Indicates a phrase (adjacent words)	"Undergraduate Admissions"
comma (,)	Used to separate names and phrases	John Smith, Kelly Smith
fieldname:term	Specifies that the term(word or phrase) must be found in that field. See listing of fieldnames in the table below.	title:" Information Technology"

Field Search Options

Name	Description	Example
	If no field is specified, the text is searched for in the Title, Summary, and Body of document	"Philosophy Major"
title	Search only in the title of the document	title:"Information Technology"
url	Search only in the url of the document	url:news, url:press

Examples

A search for...	Returns pages containing...
Philosophy Major	Philosophy and/or major, preferring pages with the phrase "Philosophy Major"
"admissions undergraduate"	the exact phrase "admissions undergraduate"
+IT store	IT, and maybe containing the optional word store
+printer +deskjet +accessories	all of the words printer, deskjet and accessories, although not necessarily next to each other
+deskjet -"press release"	deskjet but not "press release"
Jim Morrison, Dave Thomas	the name Jim Morrison and the name Dave Thomas (remember to put a comma between names)
title:"e-time cards"	the exact phrase "e-time cards" in the document Title.
url:news	the word news in the URL of the document. (e.g., http://www.metrostate.edu/news/)

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