Then it would combine those two sets of results and eliminate the duplicates to give you your final product. This means that you would have two distinctive sets of text. The two sets have been grouped together to expand the results of the search, but the two sets of text do not reference or interact with each other. One set of texts exclusively would contain the word indian , and the other set exclusively would contain the words fort And pioneer . The search operates first on the smallest innermost bracket, second on the next largest bracket and the results of the first bracket, and third on the outermost term and the results of the second bracket.
Proximity Searches A proximity search looks for the co-occurrence of two or three search terms.
Finding instances where a term is either Followed By or Near another. Looking for places where words are Not Followed By or Not Near other words. This may help you find articles about steamboat traffic on the Allegheny River. To find those terms only when one follows another, select the Followed By proximity operator. By steamboat may help you locate articles singularly concerned with Allegheny River steamboats.