From there, you can tailor your search terms and date restrictions to provide a smaller retrieval set. When searching for information on a particular company, use all variants of the name in the search field. These words are generally common words which are unnecessary to complete a search. The words and and or are considered noise words but they are also considered command words for boolean searching, so omit them when phrase searching and use them when they are needed for combining terms. Always replace noise words with a single space when entering search query.
Connectors Use connectors to establish logical relationships between words and concepts.
You can use multiple connectors in one search request. AND This connector links words or phrases that must both appear anywhere in the same document, no matter how close or far apart. OR This connector links synonyms, alternative forms of expression, acronyms, and so on. This connector links search words and phrases to create concepts. The letter n stands for a number from 1 to 255.