HotBot AND Example: political AND cartoons finds everything with BOTH words "political" AND "cartoons"
HotBot OR Example: political OR cartoons finds everything with EITHER of the words "political" OR "cartoons"
HotBot NOT Example: political NOT cartoons finds everything with the word "political" and NOT the word "cartoons"
HotBot Plus Sign "+" (Boolean AND) Example: +Bart Simpson
finds files with "Bart" in them, weighting those with "Simpson" more heavily
HotBot Minus Sign "-" (Boolean NOT) Example: Bart -Simpson
finds files with "Bart" in them but without the word "Simpson"
HotBot Plus "+" and Minus Sign "-" Example: +animation -Simpsons
finds files with "animation" in them, but NOT "Simpsons"
HotBot truncation apparently not available.
HotBot Adjacency Example: "political cartoons" finds the phrase where the word "political" precedes the word "cartoons".
HotBot proximity searching apparently not available.
HotBot DOMAIN Field Search Example: domain:umsl.edu finds all documents in the domain "umsl.edu"
HotBot LINKDOMAIN Field Search Example: linkdomain:umsl.edu finds all documents at sites with links to domain "umsl.edu"
HotBot TITLE Field Search Example: title:summer finds all documents with "summer" in the title field