Documents are selected only if the search elements specified appear in the same sequential and contiguous order in the field value. Selects documents by matching the word or phrase you specify with values stored in a specific document field. Only those documents that contain both search elements, or stemmed variations of them (for example, 'pharmaceutical company,' 'stocks,' etc.), are retrieved and ranked according to their scores. To select documents which contain stemmed variations of the phrase 'pharmaceutical companies' and stemmed variations of the word 'stock,' you can enter the following: Documents retrieved using the and operator are relevance-ranked.
Selects documents that contain all of the search elements you specify. To select documents containing stemmed variations of the words 'computers' and 'laptops,' you can enter any of the following: The operator scores retrieved documents according to the presence of each search element in the document using 'the more, the better' approach: the more search elements found in the document, the better the document's score. Retrieved documents are relevance-ranked. Valid search elements are two or more words or phrases. Selects documents that include at least one of the search elements you specify. Where appropriate, each description includes an example of simple syntax and explicit syntax.
This section describes each Verity operator in detail.
