When using more than one search term or phrase you can connect the terms with AND, AND NOT or OR operators. Always place spaces around the text operators.

A phrase that is enclosed within double quote (") characters matches only results that contain the phrase literally, as it was typed.

The asterisk behaves as the truncation (wildcard) operator. Unlike the other operators it should be appended to the word being searched for. Words match if they begin with the word preceding the * operator.

Useful search operators when searching site content:

• "AND" can be used to stipulate that a word must be present in the search results.
• "OR" indicates that a word is optional in the search results.
• "AND NOT" ensures that a word is not present in the search results.

Shared operators available to both site and product search queries:

• quotation marks to encapsulate a phrase.
• asterisk to indicate undefined number of unknown characters.

When using "AND", "OR" and "NOT" operators in a search please take the following into consideration:

• NOT is evaluated before AND.
• NOT can only occur after AND (as in AND NOT; the combination OR NOT is not allowed).
• AND is evaluated before OR.

Royal Axminster
Returns all pages or products that contain either or both of the words "Royal" and "Axminster".
"Royal Axminster"
Only returns pages or products that contain the phrase "Royal Axminster".
dev*
Returns pages or products that contain words starting with "dev". For example pages that mention "Devon", "Devonia" or "development" would all be included in the search results.
red AND blue
Returns any pages that mention both of the words "red" and "blue", regardless of where they appear in the page.
red AND NOT blue
The search results will list pages that contain the word "red" but not the word "blue".
(red OR blue) AND NOT green
This will return pages that contain the words "red" or "blue" but will exclude pages that contain the word "green".