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Types of Searches
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Examples:
!Clinton
not Clinton
These examples will produce a list with all stories that do not contain the word Clinton.
And Negation
To negate the sense of a search term in combination with another search term, the caret ( ^ ) or
the special word ANDNOT can be used. It is always used in conjunction with two terms.
Examples:
Bush andnot Laura
Bush ^Laura
Either of these examples will produce a list with all stories containing the word Bush, except
those stories that also contain the word Laura.
Bush ^Laura | Barbara
In the preceding example, the operators have left-to-right precedence. The example searches for
stories with Bush and not Laura or with stories containing Barbara.
To clarify the example, items are "grouped" as follows:
(Bush ^Laura) | Barbara
Complex Phrases
Complex phrases use special characters and special words to refine the relationships between
words you are looking for, including spanning value.
Spanning Value
A spanning value can be added to find the specified words in order, but with intervening words.
Spanning value refers to the number of words allowed between any adjacent pair of words in the
phrase.
The query "give liberty death :3" will find stories containing the phrases give me liberty or give
me death and also give me liberty but Andrew death.