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PROXIMITY OPERATOR
In the search category Full Text, a proximity operator can be used when searching for documents containing two search terms, which occur within a specific proximity of one another. Both search terms must be enclosed in quotation marks. A tilde is added directly after the last quotation mark and followed by a number representing the desired maximum word interval within which the other term must occur.
A word interval of 1 means that the words must occur next to each other; a word interval of 2 means that the words can be separated from each other by a maximum of one word, etc.
The order in which the words must occur in the text is not predetermined by the search query.
Examples:
You are looking for documents containing the words Hitler and Goebbels, and the maximum distance between the two search terms is not to be more than five words.
Fulltext: "Hitler Goebbels"~5
You are looking for documents in which the words Albert and Einstein are adjacent to each other.
Fulltext: "Albert Einstein"~1
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