<p>By default all searched terms must match. Searches are case-insensitive.</p>
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<td>quoted phrase<br>
<q>"search"</q>
</td>
<td>Use quotes to search for an exact word or phrase.<br>
<q>"george washington"</q></td>
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<td>either term<br>
<q>OR search</q><br>
</td>
<td>Add an OR between words.<br>
<q>john OR bill</q></td>
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<td>exclude<br>
<q>NOT search</q><br>
<q>-search</q>
</td>
<td>Add a dash (-) or NOT before a word to exclude from search. Note that NOT acts as a filtering operator so you cannot have a search containing only NOT operators. You cannot combine OR with NOT (<q>john OR NOT bill</q> is not valid)<br>
<q>george washington NOT bush</q></td>
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<td>grouping<br>
<q>()</q><br>
</td>
<td><br>
<q>(mother OR father) AND (daugther OR son)</q></td>
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<td><q>tag:</q><br>
<q>tags:</q>
</td>
<td>Searches only in tag names without looking at photo titles or descriptions.<br>
<q>tag:john</q>, <q>tag:(john OR bill)</q></td>
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<td><q>photo:</q><br>
<q>photos:</q>
</td>
<td>Searches only for photos with the given words in title or description.<br>