paris galerie louvre

Finds documents containing as many of these words and phrases as possible, ranked so that documents with the most matches are presented first.

Lower-case search will find matches of capitalized words also. For example, paris will find matches for paris, Paris, and PARIS.

noir +film -pinot

Matches may be required, optional, or prohibited. Precede a required word or phrase with + and a prohibited one with -. This query finds documents containing film and noir, but not containing pinot.

These boolean operators are used to determine if a statement is true or false. The following chart illustrates the usage samples:

Searching...	Results in...
cable + car	Documents with both words.
cable car	Documents with either words. This results in the greatest amount of matches
cable -car	Documents about cable, but not about cable cars.

Ranking Simple Queries

• the query words or phrases are found in the special sections of the document such as the title, in bold or in italics.
• the document contains multiple instances of the query word or phrase.