Search for phrases (sequences of multiple words) enclosing them with ‘/’, e.g.:

/president Obama/

matches texts containing the phrase ‘president Obama’ as is.

Use the same delimiter to search for reserved words – e.g. to search for texts containing the word ‘and’ use:

/and/

Finally, use phrases to search for non-alphanumeric characters, e.g.:

/ASP.NET/

searches for texts containing the phrase ‘ASP.NET’.

Note though that punctuation and other non-alphanumeric characters are typically considered equivalent to spaces by the full-text search engines – so the above search is equivalent to /ASP NET/.

Similarly, to search for ‘OS/2’ use simply:

/OS 2/

because the slash is equivalent to a space.