Exact Matches
"product manager" |
Search result contains "product manager".
Does not contain just "product" or just "manager" |
"entire boxes" |
Plural of words.
Search result contains "entire boxes". Does not contain "entire box" |
"Dev/Prod" |
Special characters are ignored (/, &, _).
Results contain ”Dev/Prod”, ”Dev&Prod”, “Dev_Prod” or “Dev Prod” |
"the test" |
Common stop words (and, the, or, it) are always excluded |
Use double quotes for exact matches
Excluding terms
chalk NOT cheese |
To search for content that contains the term 'chalk' but not 'cheese', use the operator NOT in capital letters |
chalk -cheese |
Instead of NOT, you can use a minus sign (-) in front of the word to exclude |
Use the operator NOT only in capital letters
Lower case will deliver different results
Fuzzy search
octogan~ |
The search will find octagon and possible misspellings |
Use a tilde (~) to find words spelled similarly, or to pick up misspellings.
Alphabetical range
[adam TO ben] |
The search all words that fall within adam and ben |
The search range should be small enough, else you will drown in pages.
|
|
AND, OR and NOT operators
chalk OR cheese |
To search for content that contains one of the terms, 'chalk' or 'cheese', use the operator OR in capital letters |
chalk AND cheese |
To search for content that contains both the terms 'chalk' and 'cheese', use the operator AND in capital letters |
(cheese OR butter) AND chalk |
To search for content that must contain 'chalk' but can contain either 'cheese' or 'butter', use brackets to group the search terms |
Use the operators OR and AND only in capital letters
Lower case will deliver different results
Wildcards
"b?tter" |
Single character.
Returns 'butter', 'bitter', 'better', or 'batter' |
"chick*" |
Multiple characters.
Returns ‘chicken' or 'chickpea' |
"c*c*" |
Multiple wildcards.
Returns 'chick', 'coconut', or 'chickpea' |
"c*c?" |
Combine wildcards.
Returns 'chick' but not 'chickpea' |
To perform a single character wildcard search, use the ? symbol.
To perform a multiple character wildcard search, use the * symbol.
Proximity search
"octagon post"~1 |
The search will return 'Octagon blog post', but not 'Octagon team blog post' |
Use a tilde (~) followed by a number to find two words within a certain number of words of each other.
The number following the tilde must be greater than zero.
|
Created By
Metadata
Comments
No comments yet. Add yours below!
Add a Comment
Related Cheat Sheets