Search Tips:

Find a phrase
Example: Type sports events to find the exact phrase sports events. Since the search is not case-sensitive, this is equivalent to Sports Events.

Find two or more words at once using the AND operator
Example: Type sports AND events to find documents that have both the word sports and the word events anywhere.

Find words that are close to each other by using the NEAR operator instead of the AND operator
Example: Type sports NEAR events to match documents where the word sports is within 50 words of the word events. (Note that when using NEAR, the closer together the words are, the higher the rank of the page, so the higher it appears in the list of search results.)

Find synonyms or similar words by using the OR operator
Example: Type sports OR events to find the word sports or the word events, but not necessarily both. (Note that a search using multiple words that does not include the OR operator is treated as a phrase.)

Exclude words by using the AND NOT operator to limit the search
Example: Type sports AND NOT events to find all instances of sports, as long as sports is not followed by the phrase events.

Find all forms of a word using a double asterisk (**)
Example: Type fly** to match fly, flew, flown, and flying.

Find words that begin with the same letters using a single asterisk (*)
Example: Type key* to find key, keying, keyhole, keyboard, and so on.

Use the words AND, OR, NOT, or NEAR literally by including double quotes
Example: Type "houses near parks" to find documents with the phrase houses near parks. Without the double quotes, this query would use the NEAR operator instead of the phrase.

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