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Basic Search

Type keywords to find pages containing them. All words must appear.

hong kong governor

AND / OR / NOT

Use uppercase AND, OR, and NOT to combine or exclude terms.

governor AND police
governor OR commissioner
governor NOT police
governor AND police NOT 1971

Short Forms

+ requires a term, - excludes it, | means OR.

+governor -police
governor | commissioner

Exact Phrase

Wrap words in double quotes to search an exact phrase.

"hong kong police"

Grouping

Use parentheses to control operator precedence.

(governor OR commissioner) AND "hong kong"
(hong OR hk) AND (police OR force) NOT 1971

Fuzzy & Wildcard

~N adds fuzzy tolerance (e.g. governor~1 matches "government").
* at the end of a word matches any prefix.

governor~1
hong* police*

Combined Example

(hong OR hk) AND ("legislative council"~2 OR governor) NOT 1971

Without boolean operators, Exact phrase checkbox still works as before. For exact phrase with boolean logic, use "quoted phrase" directly in the keyword box.