When searching the following modifiers can be used:
- No operator (default)
By default (when neither plus nor minus is specified) the word is optional, but the description that contain it will be rated higher.
- +
A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in every row returned.
- -
A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any row returned.
- < >
These two operators are used to change a word's contribution to the relevance value that is assigned to a row. The < operator decreases the contribution and the > operator increases it. See the example below.
- ( )
Parentheses are put round sub-expressions to give them higher precedence in the search.
- ~
A leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word's contribution to the row relevance to be negative. It's useful for marking noise words. A row that contains such a word will be rated lower than others, but will not be excluded altogether, as it would be with the minus operator.
- *
An asterisk is the truncation operator. Unlike the other operators, it is appended to the word, or fragment, not prepended.
- "
Double quotes at the beginning and end of a phrase, matches only rows that contain the complete phrase, as it was typed.
Examples:
- Jenna Jameson
Find rows that contain at least one of these words.
- +Jenna +Jameson
Find rows that contain both words.
- +Jenna Jameson
Find rows that contain the word "Jenna'', but rank it higher if it also contain "Jameson".
- +Jenna -Jameson
Find rows that contain the word "Jenna" but not "Jameson".
- +Jenna +(>Jameson <Haze)
Find rows that contain the word "Jenna'' and "Jameson'', or "Jenna' and "Haze" (in any order), but rank "Jenna Jameson" higher than "Jenna Haze.
- boob*
Find rows that contain the word "boob'', "boobs', "boobies' etc.
- "tiny tits"
Find rows that contain "tiny tits'', but not "tiny girl with tits''.
IMPORTANT: When using small words, the results may appear incorrect. You must know that small words (consisting of three letters or less)are excluded for purposes of the search and are always considered not mandatory.
