Use multiple words Example: conscious mind
	Use similar words Example: metaphor blending figuration
	Use quotation marks Example: "animal play" rhesus
	Use "sounds like" Example: Povinello
	Use plus (+) or minus (-) Syntax: +"cognitive" -"evolution"
	Use field searches (title, desc, keys, body, alt, url) Syntax: field:text or field:"text text"
	Use wildcards Syntax: te*t

Use multiple words
Multiple words are useful both for narrowing and for broadening searches.

• To find all documents that contain at least one of the search terms, leave the radio buttons in the default position on "Any word":

• To find only those documents that contain all the search terms, but not necessarily next to each other or in the order you entered them, check the "All words" radio button:

• To find only those documents that contain all the search terms in the right order, check the "Exact phrase" radio button:

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Use related terms
Since different authors may use slightly different terminologies to discuss the same topic, it may be useful to enter several related terms:

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Use quotation marks
If you want to look for documents that contain a phrase and one or more words, you can use quotation marks:

• If you leave the "Any word" radio button checked, the search will retrieve the documents that contain either the phrase or the word
• If the "All words" button is checked, the search is restricted to documents that contain both the phrase and the word.

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Use "sounds like"
Make sure your search terms are spelled correctly. If you're not sure of the spelling, check the "sounds like" box and the search engine will attempt to find words that sound similar to your search terms:

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Use plus (+) or minus (-)
Use a plus sign when your search term or phrase must appear in the search results. Use a minus sign to indicate undesirable term(s). The plus sign tells the search engine that a certain word or phrase is required in the search results, and a minus sign indicates that a word or phrase must be absent in the search results.

• Enclose the phrase in quotation marks
• Don't leave a space between the plus or minus sign and the opening quotation mark
• Leave the radio buttons in the "Any words" position

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Use field searches
Field searches allow you to create specific searches for words that appear in a specific part of a document. A field search can be performed on body text (body:), title text (title:), alt text (alt:), meta description (desc:), meta key words (keys:) or URL (url:). The field name should be in lowercase and immediately followed by a colon. There should be no spaces between the colon and the search term.

The field searches can be followed by a word or phrase. Phrases must be contained within quotation marks. For field searches, leave the radio button in the "Any word" position.

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Use wildcards
Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular request. The * character is used as the wildcard character. For instance, searching for wh* will find the words what, why, when, whether, and any other word that starts with wh:

Searching for *her* will find the words here, whether, together, gathering, and any other word that contains her anywhere in the word:

Wildcards may be combined with the standard plus (+) and minus (-) modifiers, quotes for phrases, as well as the field search specifiers. +wh* -se*ch will find all pages which have a word that starts with wh and which does not contain a word that starts with se and ends with ch:

 "wh* are" will find the phrases where are, what are, why are, etc.:

You can use masks to find telephone numbers and other regular expressions:

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