Boolean Searches

The Ideal BB search engine supports the use of boolean terms.  This page will explain how to use those search terms and provide examples.

Simple search
Just enter your search criteria as you normally would.  For example:  

installation help

This search would find all articles that have both the words "installation" followed by the word "help" within the selected criteria.

You may also use the * as a wildcard.  This would match the prefix or suffix to the *.   For example:  

install*

This search would located all articles that have the partial word install at the prefix.  It would match installation and installing, but not test-install.

More complex searches
You may use boolean operators to perform searches.  This makes the search engine very powerful.  Make sure to enclose phrases with double quotes.

"my friend" AND "my enemy" 

This search would produce results based on articles containing both strings. 

"my friend OR "my enemy" 

This search would produce results based on articles containing one string or the other.

You may also use the NOT operator to exclude terms from the search.

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