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Consecutive words are treated as a phrase; they must appear in the same order within a matching page or document. For example, the query classroom instruction specifies that a matching page must have those two words next to one another in that order.

You can insert the Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT to refine your search:

• The query classroom AND instruction specifies that a matching page or document must contain both the word classroom and the word instruction, but the words don't need to be next to one another.
  
  
• The query classroom OR instruction specifies that a matching page or document must contain either the word classroom or the word instruction.
  
  
• The query classroom NOT instruction specifies that a matching page must contain either the word classroom or the word instruction, but must not contain both words.

You can search for any word except for common words such as a, as, and, the.

Punctuation marks such as the period (.), colon (:), semicolon (;) and comma (,) are ignored during a search.

To use special characters such as &, |, ^, #, @, $ in a query, enclose the entire query in quotation marks.

To search for a word or phrase containing quotation marks, enclose the entire phrase in quotation marks and then double the quotation marks around the word or words you want to surround with quotes. For example, "World Wide Web OR ""Web""" will look for pages and documents that include World Wide Web or "Web".

The asterisk (*) can be used as a wild card prefix or suffix. For example, a query of esc* might return matches that included the words escape or escapade, while a query of *ing might return matches that included the words working or building.

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