Bibliography

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Boolean search options

If search terms are used without any boolean operators, the search engine separately looks up the presence of each term in each row of the whole database and returns the result. If you look for a database entry, that contains all your search terms combined, do use a + in fromt of every term.

Boolean search operators

+	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.
*	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.

Boolean search examples

schmid petra	find rows that contain at least one of these words.
+schmid +petra	find rows that contain both words.
+schmid petra	find rows that contain the word «schmid», but rank it higher if it also contain «petra».
+schmid -petra	find rows that contain the word «schmid» but not «petra».
nabat*	find rows that contain the word «nabat», «nabataean», «nabatean», and «nabatäer».
"nabataean pottery"	find rows that contain the word words «nabataean pottery» (in that exact order).