- Every word in the query must be retrieved in every matching result, i.e. multiple words are associated with a logical AND
- - at the beginning of a word can be used to exclude this word from the result lists
- "..." A phrase that is enclosed within double quotes must be present as it was typed, including space
- * at the end of a word serves as a truncation, or wildcard operator
- The full-text search is case-insensitive
- The matched results have no particular ordering