| Search Type | Description | Example |
| Exact phrase search | To search for content that contains the exact phrase "chalk and cheese" | "chalk and cheese" |
| Or Search | To search for content that contains one of the terms, "chalk" OR "cheese" | chalk OR cheese |
| And Search | To search for content that contains both the terms "chalk" AND "cheese" | chalk AND cheese |
| Not search | To search for content that contains "chalk" but NOT "cheese" | chalk NOT cheese |
| Excluded Term search | Similar to the NOT search, to search for content that contains "chalk" and "butter" but NOT "cheese" | chalk butter -cheese |
| Grouping Search | To search for content that MUST contain "chalk" but CAN contain either "cheese" or "butter" | (cheese OR butter) AND chalk |
| Title Search | To search for content with "chalk" in its title, where title is the field keyword. | title:chalk |
| Wild card searches | Single character To search for "butter" or "batter" |
b?tter |
| Wild card searches | Multiple characters To search for "chicken" or "chickpea" Wildcards can be used anywhere within a word, except at the very beginning. |
chick* or c*c* c*c? |
| Proximity searches | This search ensure that the two words specified must be within a certain number of words of each other to be included. | "octagon post"~1 will return "Octagon blog post" |
| Range search | Searches for names that fall alphabetically within the specifed range. | [adam to ben] |
| Fuzzy search | This search looks for words spelled similarly. To search for octagon, if unsure about spelling: |
octogan~ will correctly return "octagon" |
| Combined search | You can also combine various search terms together | o?tag* AND past~ AND ("blog" AND "post") |
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