Search queries can be written in different ways to fulfill specific search requirements.

1. Words separated by a space imply an AND.
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   ‍Example: A query of "toy story" means search for toy AND story‍
2. Exact phrase searches are possible using double quotes.
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   ‍Example: If you wanted to search for "Toy Story" as an exact match, your query would be "Toy Story" with the quotation marks.
3. Partial phrase matching
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   ‍Example: "Toy * Story" would return any results that contain Toy Story with one word in between. "Toy *** Story" would return any results that contain Toy Story with three words in between.
4. Wildcard matching
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   ‍Example: Sto:* would return any results that contain words that start with sto.
5. Expression groups
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   ‍Example: (Woody or Buzz) Toy would return multiple matches for the word Toy that also include either Woody or Buzz.
6. Negation of specific words is possible by using a - character.
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   ‍Example: If you wanted to search for movies that have Toy in the title, but not Toy Story, your query would be "toy -story".
7. You can also use a combination of these to get even more specific.
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   ‍Example: Searching for "toy story" day -night would mean search for the phrase Toy Story and the word day, without the word night.‍
8. Priority targets allow you to specify which priority defined in your search index to use for the specific expression. This can be combined with wildcard matching as well.
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   ‍Example: Toy Story:2 would search for all records containing the word Toy, as well as the word Story in any fields representing priority 2 in your search index.
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   ‍Example: Toy Sto:*2 would search for all records containing the word Toy, as well as words starting with Sto in any fields representing priority 2 in your search index.
9. Single vs Plural is supported.For example, "toy" will also return results that contain "toys".

Stop Words -- are commonly used words such as articles, pronouns and prepositions. For example: is, and, an, or, the. Stop words are not included in your search query.