Search String

Search string is a combination of all the text, symbols and numbers the user has entered in a search engine to get the desired result.

Search strings are used to find files and their contents, database information and web pages. Search strings can include keywords, numeric data, and operators. Stop words (often used words such as) are not indexed and ignored in the search query. However, some search engines allow them to consider searching through the included operator, such as the plus sign added in front of the word.

Operator search commands (often entered in capital letters) are used to refine searches. For example, wildcard characters represent one or more other characters or a word. The most commonly used wildcard characters are the asterisks (*), which represent zero or more characters in Google and the question mark (?), Which represents a word. Parentheses () indicate that the attached words are to be searched first.

Boolean operators allow to include words and phrases in search results and specify a word to exclude. For example, "apples not bananas" Will include results with the former, but will exclude the latter. Proximity operators specify the distance of two words on the page as a requirement to return the result. W (5), for example, will limit results to pages containing two words within five words of each other.

Several operators can be added to fix a search query.