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Boolean Search

This search type is used for building a logically structured search string of the keywords and/or phrases. The results of the search will be based on the words entered in the KEYWORDS field and the logical operators included. The KEYWORDS field may include one or more logical operators. A list of the support logical operators is listed below along with a couple examples.  

Here are the Boolean search "Operators":

                1. Operators are: AND, OR, NOT, NEAR

                2. Wild Card is: *

Boolean Search Operators:

  • The Boolean search operator AND is equal to the "+" symbol.

  • The Boolean search operator NOT is equal to the "-" symbol.

  • The Boolean search operator OR is the default setting of any search engine; meaning, all search engines will return all the words you type in, automatically.

  • The Boolean search operator NEAR is equal to putting a search query in quotes, i.e., "sponge bob squarepants". You're essentially telling the search engine that you want all of these words, in this specific order, or this specific phrase.

Boolean Search Operators:

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Example:

 (Orange or Apple or "Apple Juice") and (Fruit near Juice) and Banana and "*berry" and not"Cherry"

Note: While using "not" operator, please do not give any space after NOT and wrap the keyword with ("") double quotes.

Hints:

  1. If you are searching for a keyword which has more than one word (ex: Apple Juice) you need to wrap it in quotes.

  2. If you are doing a partial word search (ex: *berry) you need to wrap it in quotes.  As you know "*berry" will match Raspberry, Strawberry, etc.

Note: We do our best to highlight the keywords you entered in your search when you are reviewing the details of each job. Please note that the highlighting is not part of the search mechanism itself and is not always perfect due to the complexity of some of the search types available. If you find job results that don’t have any keywords highlighted, it does not necessarily mean that the result is not valid.

Video Link: How to use Boolean Operators

SourceFirst Limitation:

We found the reason why you were not hitting any results with Boolean searching.

There were two things that were not happening the way "Source First" wants.

1) SourceFirst does not support * in Boolean string.( Instead put all combination words like for ex customer or Customers or account or accounts or accounting .)

2) When you have space in between words by default we assume as "AND". In your example that threw the logic off.

Once we made the two changes in the Boolean string you sent, SourceFirst was able to get results. Please share it with your team use it let me know if you have any issue.

(("sales engineer" or "sales specialist" or "pre-sales" or "Pre Sales" or "post-sales") and ate and (customer or Customers or account or accounts or accounting) and (advantest or agilent or anritsu or averna or credence or hcl or ltx or megatest or "national instruments" or qmax or rohde or spea or teradyne or verigy))