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Find all revisions about israel but not about hamas: israel -hamas

Find all revisions from the bbc, about iraq and blair: source:bbc iraq blair

Find all revisions about gordon brown: "gordon brown"

Find all revisions with the word pakistan in the article title title:pakistan

The BBC use different urls to represent the same article. To find a particular BBC article that you have a url for, say http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5375834.stm, it's usually best to search for the number in the url like this: url:*5375834*

Find all revisions about Nepal, excluding anything about the helicopter crash: nepal -crash -helicopter

Find all revisions with any words beggining with democra, such as democracy, democrats, democratic: democra*

Find all revisions with words a bit like mosharaf. You can use this when you aren't sure how to spell something, or when journalists aren't sure either (such as Musharraf, which this example will find) mosharaf~

More details on the query language can be found in the Apache Lucene documention.