- The words “OR” and “AND” would be treated as any other keywords.
- Capitalization is irrelevant.
- Search phrases are not recognized - all keywords are searched separately, as determined by whitespace.
- Example: National Environmental Policy Act - returns laws with all four words somewhere in the fulltext fields.
- Except that keywords containing spaces may be quoted, effectively allowing a phrase.
- Example: "National Environmental Policy Act" - returns laws with this phrase.
- Negation of keywords is allowed, by using a "-".
- Example: "National Environmental Policy Act" -NEPA - returns laws which contain the exact keyword as the example above, but NEPA is not found in any of the fulltext fields.
- Example: National Environmental Policy Act -NEPA - returns laws where all four of the first words must be found, but NEPA must not be found.