Description:

This document describes how you can combine several search terms in the search function of the LANCOM Support Knowledge Base to optimize the search results.

Exact phrase search

Use the double quotation mark (") to search for content that contains, for example, the phrase 'yellow book' or where 'book' and 'yellow' are major words.

"yellow book"

The system ignores common words (stop words), including ‘and’, ‘the’, and more, even if they are in double quotation marks.

Example:

  1. Searching for "yellow book" only returns pages that have 'yellow' immediately before 'book'.
  2. Searching for "a yellow" will not display pages containing only the 'a' because 'a' is a stop word.

OR search

To search for content that contains one of the terms 'chalk' or 'book', use the uppercase OR operator.

chalk OR book

AND search

To search for content that contains both of the terms 'chalk' and 'book', use the uppercase AND operator.

chalk AND book

NOT search

To search for content that contains the term 'chalk' but not 'book', use the uppercase NOT operator.

chalk NOT book

Excluded term search

To search for content that contains 'chalk' and 'butter' but not 'book', type this:

chalk butter -book