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Use * in words to mean one or more characters
- web*
- finds pages containing words starting with 'web'
If you use more than one word your matches will include any of them
- cats dogs
- finds pages containing 'cats' or 'dogs'
Put OR between words if you want to match either of them
- cats or dogs
- finds pages containing 'cats' or 'dogs'
Put AND between words if you want to match both of them
- cats and dogs
- finds pages containing both 'cats' and 'dogs'
Put NOT before a word if you don't want to match it
- cats not dogs
- finds pages containing 'cats' but not 'dogs'
Put ( ) around OR, AND and NOT phrases for more complicated matches
- (cats not dogs) and mice
- finds pages containing 'mice', plus 'cats' but not 'dogs'
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