What do I find?

Knowledge Retrieval

… containing all terms. If there are more than three search terms, documents containing only a part of the specified terms will also be found.

Knowledge AND Retrieval

… containing all terms

With boolean operators

Knowledge OR Retrieval

… containing at least one of the terms

With boolean operators

Windows AND NOT Mac

… containing the term "Windows" but not the term "Mac"

With boolean operators

Share*

… containing words words starting with "Share*", like "Sharepoint", "Shareware"

Wildcard search

Microsoft Share*

… containing "Microsoft" and additional words starting with "Share"

Wildcard search

book

… containing "book" within a word, like "bookstore", "bookseller" or "guestbook"

Linguistic search (optional)

sold

... containing variants of "sold" such as sell, selling.

Depending on the configuration and for German only other variants may be found that go back to the same stem (verkauft, Verkauf, verkaufen)

Linguistic search (optional)

*meier*

… containing "meier" in any position within a word, like "Meierhöfer", "Obermeier" or "Obermeierhofen".

Wildcard search

meyer~

... containing "meyer" or with similar spelling like "meier", "meder" or "maier".

Depending on the settings for fuzzy search, the results may differ. In this example, fuzzy search is used starting with the second character. In the default, it starts with the third character.

Fuzzy search

"yellow pages"

... containing this phrase

Searching for phrases

"Angela Merkel"~ 2

... containing Angela and Merkel with maximum two words between them, f. ex. Angela Dorothea Merkel.

Distance search