| Symbol | Means | Action |
| & | AND | Finds only documents containing all of the specified words or phrases. |
| | | OR | Finds documents containing at least one of the specified words or phrases. To type this on most keyboards, hit the shift and backslash keys at the same time. |
| & ! | AND NOT | Finds documents containing the first word but excluding the second |
| ~ | NEAR | Finds documents containing those words or phrases that are used within ten words of each other in a paragraph. |