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Quotes or punctuation bind phrases:

"lifesize pelican sculpture"
lifesize.pelican.sculpture

The plus sign makes a term required. Use this to force certain keywords when searching with "match any term".

lifesize +sculpture +"brown pelican"

The pipe makes a term optional, like 'or', giving extra weight to optional keywords.

"ring of fire" |lyrics |"johnny cash"

The minus sign makes a term forbidden, removed from the results.

computer parts -"full-duplex switched ethernet" -netcard

Attributes search a part of the page or record:

link:http://www.chrisdixonstudios.com/
title:pelican
text:"chris dixon"
host:chrisdixonstudios.com
domain:www.chrisdixonstudios.com
url:chrisdixonstudios.com/gallery
+domain:chrisdixonstudios.com -url:chrisdixonstudios.com/gallery

The asterisk matches zero to four non-space characters:

col*ring book

This search engine finds whole words by default; a search for "cdsbird123" will not match "CDSbird-123". For partial searches, enable substring matching, or use wildcards "cdsb*12*".