This is a summary of the Boolean conditions you can use to refine your Search. |
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INCLUDE Condition N.B. maths arrangements |
and/AND/+/default pages with words maths and arrangements |
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OR Condition |
or/OR |
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EXCLUDE Condition |
not/NOT/- |
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N.B.You cannot start an expression with a NOT condition N.B. Each condition should be on its own and not followed by another one. If it is, only the last one is considered e.g: maths and not arrangements is processed as maths not arrangements |
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Phrases |
Double Quotes |
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If you wish to find the phrase 'maths arrangements' rather than the individual words maths or arrangements then use double quotes,
e.g: Note that hyphenated words need to be put in quotes so that the search knows you are not using an exclude condition as shown above.
e.g: |
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Complex Condition |
Parentheses |
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Some conditions can be ambiguous in meaning. e.g You can make it clear what is being asked for by using parentheses. i.e Another example of complex search conditions would be: |
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Wild Card |
Asterisk |
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If you look for the word super then you will not find the words superb or supersonic. |
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Proximity |
near/NEAR |
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This will find all pages where two or more words are ‘near’ each other. maths near arrangements will return pages with the words maths and arrangements within about forty words to each other and prioritised so that the pages where the words are closest together are prioritised in the search results page. e.g. maths near arrangements near speciment question papers will find pages where cat is near dog and dog is near parrot. |
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Upper and Lower Case |
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The search will find words that match regardless of capital letters or otherwise. e.g. |
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Combining Words and Phrases with Operators |
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You can search any combination of words and phrases. e.g. |
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Search Results |
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You can always see what has been searched for. |
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Unsearchable Characters |
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Some characters may cause confusion for the Search. For example, if you look for A&E and see This shows that & has caused the E to be ignored and the A is then ignored as usual. If we had looked for Accident&Emergency we may have seen. We can see that the search discarded the Emergency and just searched for Accident. |