In-house ASSTR-Mirror search guide

Learn how to leverage powerful, Google-like operators to pinpoint exact matching files across the archive.

1. Core Search Operators

By default, typing multiple words will search for documents containing ALL of those words anywhere in the file (an implicit AND relationship).

Operator Syntax	Search Type	Engine Interpretation
`"exact phrase"`	Exact Phrase Match	Matches the exact words in that specific sequential order. Strip constraints are applied.
`term1 \| term2`	Logical OR Branch	Matches documents containing either term1, term2, or both options.
`term1 (term2 \| term3) term4`	Parenthetical Logic Nesting	Uses the mathematical Distributive Property to apply each term inside the parenthesis to the query.
`~keyword`	Skip-Synonym Match	Forces a literal exact match on that word, telling the engine to explicitly skip any alternative synonym replacements (e.g., searching `~hypnotize` won't match "hypnotized").
`-excludedterm`	Negative Word Exclusion	Hides any file containing this keyword, even if all other search terms matched successfully.

2. Automated Synonym Expansion

To prevent missing documents that use alternative terminology, our in-house engine intercepts your input and checks it against a master Synonym Mapping Dictionary.

Normally, database engines turn off synonyms when you search using strict quotation marks. However, our specialized server loop safely injects synonym variants directly inside your quoted phrase boundaries, evaluating all vocabulary possibilities in parallel.

3. Advanced Matrix Examples & Interpretations

Here is exactly how complex nested user inputs are parsed, multiplied out into separate structural matrix paths by our backend interpreter, and processed by Meilisearch:

Example A: Multiple Exact Phrases

User Typed Request: "my wife" "our son"

Query Passed to search engine: "my wife" AND "our son"

Example B: Nested Parenthetical Choice Groupings

User Typed Request: "my (wife | niece | daughter)"

Query Passed to search engine: "my wife" OR "my niece" OR "my daughter"

Example C: Compound Multi-Phrase Logical Permutations

User Typed Request: "my wife" "our (son | daughter)"

Query Passed to search engine: ("my wife" AND "our son") OR ("my wife" AND "our daughter")

Example D: Selective Vocabulary Locking

User Typed Request: "my (father | mother)" ~hypnotize

Query Passed to search engine: ("my father" AND hypnotize) OR ("my mother" AND hypnotize)
The "~" forces that specific word and doesn't return similar results like "hypnotized" or "hypnotizing"