what is the search syntax for this query?

wcpriest · Post by **wcpriest** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 9:42 am

We indexed some pages via master.com about
private foundations

About half the pages are about "national" giving

So, on those pages there is always:
"geographic focus: national"

But 51 pages don't have the phrase "geographic focus:"

Every page has the word "foundation."

I can get the ones that state 'national' by:
putting "geographic focus: national" in the search box

I can get the ones without the phrase by:
putting
foundation -geographic

But, I try to aggregate the two sets using an OR, and get no pages:
( "geographic focus: national") OR ( foundation -geographic)

Here is the URL. How's it done? Thanks.

http://elearningspace.org.master.com/te ... ter/search

Post by **mark** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 10:48 am

It doesn't make sense to or those two queries. If all of the pages of interest contain "foundation" then search for that.

But technically you could do
(geographic focus: national,foundation)

In general you should be asking how to use master.com services on Master.com's tech support message board.