Basics

• Your queries are split into terms and phrases, fields and operators
• Term: Single word, e.g. internet
• Phrase: Several terms, combined by quotation marks: "Internet of Things"
• Fields: Areas you are scanning: Title, Abstract, Description, Tags (by default all of them)
• Operators: Special characters to link or modify terms: "OR", "-" , "?"
• Search terms are not case sensitive: "Lacuna" = "LACUNA" = "lacuna"
• Operators are case sensitive: OR not or

Linking search terms

• Widen results: OR
• eco OR green
• Find items that contain either of the words "eco" or "green"
• Narrow results: AND or whitespace
• eco AND green
• eco green
• Finds only items that contain both words
• Exclude terms: NOT or "-"
• eco NOT green
• eco –green
• Finds items that contain “eco” but not "green"

Modify search terms

• Fuzzy search: "~"
• foam~
• Finds items with "foam", "roam" or "foams"
• Proximity search: "~" + number
• "smart home"~10
• Finds items that contain the terms within 10 words of each other
• Boost a term: "^"
• home automation^5
• The boosted term has a higher weight in the calculation of result relevance
• Search Fields: "field:<term>"
• title:car OR tags:automotive
• Finds items that contain "car" in the title or has tag called "automotive".
• Other possible field keywords are:"abstract: <term>" and "description: <term>"
• Please do not add blank space between colon and searh term.
• Group terms: (...)
• (multi OR omni) AND channel
• Finds items with either one of the terms in brackets and "channel"