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If you know the title of the page you are looking for, use the title: field specifier to search for the word or phrase in the title of the page. 

Search Syntax Summary
 
Operator
Action
Example
"term1 term2 ..." Specifies that words should be adjacent
"Hamlin Garland"
+term Requires a term
+"Hamlin Garland" 
-term Excludes documents containing a term
-"Hamlin" 
fieldname:term Specifies that the term must be found in that field. See listing of fieldnames in the table below.
title:"Bertolt Brecht"

 

 Field Search Summary
 
Name
Description
Example
  If no field is specified, the text is searched for in the Title, Summary, and Body.
judaism "Lion Feuchtwanger"
link A hyperlink within the text of the document
link:usc.edu/isd
site Pages on a specified site
site:usc.edu
title Title of the document
title:Feuchtwanger

title:"Hamlin Garland"

url The URL of the document
url:usc.edu/isd

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