- apple banana
Find results that contain at least one of the two words. - +apple +juice
Find results that contain both words. - +apple macintosh
Find results that contain the word "apple", but rank results higher if they also contain "macintosh". - +apple -macintosh
Find results that contain the word "apple" but not "macintosh". - +apple ~macintosh
Find results that contain the word "apple", but if the results also contains the word "macintosh", rate it lower than if results does not. This is "softer" than a search for +apple -macintosh, for which the presence of "macintosh" causes the results not to be returned at all. - +apple +(>turnover <strudel)
Find results that contain the words "apple" and "turnover", or "apple" and "strudel" (in any order), but rank "apple turnover" higher than "apple strudel". - apple*
Find results that contain words such as "apple", "apples", "applesauce", or "applet". - "some words"
Find results that contain the exact phrase "some words" (for example, results that contain "some words of wisdom" but not "some noise words"). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotes that enclose the search string itself.