Search Modifiers

Modifiers are combined with operators to
change the standard behavior of an operator in some way. For
example, you can use the CASE modifier with an operator to
specify that you want to match the case of the search word.
Modifiers are as follows:

Modifier Description
CASE Specifies a case-sensitive search:
<CASE>J[AVA, ava]

Searches for "JAVA" and "Java."

MANY Counts the density of
words, stemmed variations, or phrases in a document
and produces a relevance-ranked score for retrieved
documents. Can be used with the following operators:
  • WORD
  • WILDCARD
  • STEM
  • PHRASE
  • SENTENCE
  • PARAGRAPH
<PARAGRAPH><MANY>javascript 
   <AND> vbscript

The MANY modifier cannot be used with the following:

  • AND
  • OR
  • ACCRUE
  • Relational operators
NOT Used to exclude
documents that contain the specified word or phrase.
Used only with the AND and OR operators.
java <AND> programming 
   <NOT> coffee
ORDER Used to specify that
the search elements must occur on the same order in
which they were specified in the query. Can be used
with the following operators:
  • PARAGRAPH
  • SENTENCE
  • NEAR/N

Place the ORDER modifier before any operator:

<ORDER><PARAGRAPH>("server", 
   "java")