The text
search engine allows queries to be formed from
arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the
keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with
parentheses. For example:
information retrieval
finds documents containing 'information' or
'retrieval'
information or retrieval
same as above
information and retrieval
finds documents containing both 'information' and
'retrieval'
information not retrieval
finds documents containing 'information' but not
'retrieval'
(information not retrieval) and WAIS
finds documents containing 'WAIS', plus
'information' but not 'retrieval'
web*
finds documents containing words starting with 'web'
