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Use multiple words. Use multiple words when performing your search. The search results will return more refined results from several words than from a single word. That's especially true for title and name searches.

Use quotation marks. Use quotation marks to find words which should appear next to each other, as in a movie title: For example, searching for "unapprehended individual drew guns" instead of unapprehended individual drew guns will search for instances where the four words appear together; otherwise the search results will include the words unapprehended, individual, drew, and guns, but not necessarily together. The words may appear anywhere and in any order, within any document.

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