Finds grammatical variations on endings, like applies, applied, applying in a search for apply
Finds words even if they are misspelled. A search for alphabet with a fuzziness of 1 would also find alphaqet. With a fuzziness of 3, the same search would find both alphaqet and alpkaqet
Finds words that sound alike, like Smythe in a search for Smith
Finds word synonyms using a comprehensive English language thesaurus (dtSearch Web can also support custom thesaurus terms)
? matches any single character
appl? matches apply or apple
* matches any number of characters
appl*ion matches application
~~ indicates numeric range
14~~18 looks for 14, 15, 16, 17 or 18
xfirstword matches the first word of a document
apple pie w/10 xfirstword
xlastword matches the last word of a document
apple pie w/10 xlastword
A number after a word assigns a specific positive or negative weight when ranking retrieved documents. Example:
apple:5 salad:-2