Phrase search ("")

By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling XENOPORT SEARCH to consider the exact words in that exact order without any change.

Terms you want to exclude (-)

Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain this word to appear in your results. The minus sign should appear immediately before the word and should be preceded with a space. For example, in the query [ anti-virus software ], the minus sign is used as a hyphen and will not be interpreted as an exclusion symbol; whereas the query [ anti-virus -software ] will search for the words 'anti-virus' but exclude references to software. You can exclude as many words as you want by using the - sign in front of all of them, for example [ jaguar -cars -football -os ]. The - sign can be used to exclude more than just words. For example, place a hyphen before the 'site:' operator (without a space) to exclude a specific site from your search results.

The *, or wildcard, is a little-known feature that can be very powerful. If you include * within a query, it tells XENOPORT SEARCH to try to treat the star as a placeholder for any unknown term(s) and then find the best matches.

Search exactly as is (+)

XENOPORT SEARCH employs synonyms automatically, so that it finds pages that mention, for example, healthcare for the query [ health care ] (with a space). Sometimes XENOPORT SEARCH helps out a little too much and gives you a synonym when you don't really want it. By attaching a + immediately before a word (remember, don't add a space after the +), you are telling XENOPORT SEARCH to match that word precisely as you typed it. Putting double quotes around a single word will do the same thing.