Operator |
Explanation |
Example |
"" Quotation marks |
Requires words to be searched as an exact phrase. When using this operator, all wild-card characters must be explicitly included. |
"Age" will return results that have the whole word Age within them. It will not return manage or ages or aged. |
? Question Mark |
Matches exactly one character at the end of a search term. |
ma? will only match search terms that end with three-letter words starting with ma, such as man,mad,map, and mat |
*Asterisk |
Matches zero or more characters (including spaces) |
*age will match any word ending with age, such as language,image,percentage, and just age |