Query syntax

The FTS Server supports a rich query language that enables fuzzy searches, proximity searches, weighted searches, and Boolean searches.

Queries can contain terms and operators. A term is a single word, such as “united”. A phrase is a group of words that are contained in quotation marks, such as “computer software”. Phrases are searched as exact expressions. Stop words are not removed. No lemmatization is performed. Boolean operators, such as AND, or wildcards, such as asterisk (*) or question mark (?), are treated as literal characters.

Without quotation marks, the query is parsed and the syntactical options that are described in the following sections are allowed.