How to get the best results!

You can enter several words as well as some signs which determine how the words should to be used.

A leading plus (+)sign indicates that this word must be present in every row returned.
A leading minus sign (-) indicates that this word must not be present in any row returned.
These two operators are used to change a word's contribution to the relevance value that is assigned to a row. The < operator decreases the contribution and the > operator increases it.
An asterisk (*) is the truncation operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word, not prepended.
The phrase, that is enclosed in double quotes ", matches only rows that contain this phrase literally, as it was typed.

And here are some examples:

apple banana... find rows that contain at least one of these words.
+apple +juice... both words.
+apple macintosh... word "apple", but rank it higher if it also contain "macintosh".
+apple -macintosh... word "apple" but not "macintosh".
+apple +(>turnover <strudel)... "apple" and "turnover", or "apple" and "strudel" (in any order), but rank "apple pie" higher than "apple strudel".
apple*... "apple", "apples", "applesauce", and "applet".
"some words"... "some words of wisdom", but not "some noise words".

The words are presented in the search results with colored background with upper-case letters. The first word green, the Second, so far it is in the displayed text available, yellow! All further words no more

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