Published in Abhishek Tiwari

Anyone who has worked with advanced search systems knows the intricacy of boolean operators. AND, OR, NOT - these seemingly simple words become powerful tools in the hands of search specialists. Add in proximity operators like WITH and NEAR, throw in some parentheses for nesting, and you’ve got yourself a query that can pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for… or so we thought. In practice, these queries can become unwieldy beasts.