Enter a few keywords or read our search tips below to make advanced queries.


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Each term may be preceded by the standard Boolean operators not, and, or or. If you search for "trucks not ford", you'll find all documents containing the word "trucks" except those documents which also contain the word "ford". If you type in "and trucks and ford and chevy", you'll find only those documents which contain all three search terms. The default value is or. A regular search for "chevy ford truck" would return pages with at least one of the three terms.

Shorthand notation will also work. A search on "truck -ford" is equivalent to the first example above, and "+truck +ford +chevy" will return the same documents as the second.

If you enter a search term with at least one capital letter, like "Stores", the search will be case sensitive with respect to that word - otherwise lowercase words like "stores" will generate hits from "Stores", "STORES", or "StoreS".

To group a collection of words, use quotes. For example, the query "Chevrolet Corvette" (quotes included) would not generate a hit from "Corvette by Chevrolet". Without quotes, the sentence would count. Boolean operators can also act on quotations: a search on '+Chevrolet +Corvette not "Chevrolet Corvette"' would return only those documents where "Chevrolet" and "Corvette" appear separately.

To perform a string search, preface your term with the dollar sign - a query on "$in" would find all words containing "in". Complex wildcard searches using the asterisk are NOT permitted.



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