Search Modifiers Cheat Sheet

What are search modifiers? They are commands that help make your search more precise by refining and filtering your results.

Asterisk: Use it when you want your search results to capture plural forms, different tenses, or different endings of the words. Example: Chees* Will search for cheese, cheesy, cheesiest, etc.

Quotation: Marks Use it when you are searching for a specific phrase and want all the words to appear in that specific order. Example: “soft cheese”

Brackets: Use it with boolean operators to help dictate the order of operation. It is helpful when you want to use a variety of words, phrases, concepts and techniques in one search. Example: (cheese AND cow) NOT (“soft cheese” AND goat)