Tipps and Tricks for a combined search  
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The seqence of the combined search critera can be selected individually. Nevertheless in some cases a different seqence can make the difference when it comes to how fast the search now produces results. Especially with large title pools or slow PC's this can make quite a difference.  
For this reason here's the first tip:  
 
F If possible please broaden the search first ( OR combinations) and afterwards narrow it down ( AND combination)  
 
Here's our Christmas example again:  
 
totalxmas  
 
This would produce even more results:  
 
xmasmore  
 
G   Pure OR-Kombinations can be strung together without any hesitation! Combined AND and OR combinations can sometimes lead to unwanted results!  
 
Example:  
 
The last line : Title = *Weihn* can not be appended to the fifth row, it has to be put into the third, the result would produce less titles otherwise. WHY?  
 
The line Title=*new* AND =*year* searches for all titles that contain both search strings at the same time.  
 
If now the line would read: Title=*new* AND =*year* OR *Weihn* it would search for all titles that contain either "new" and "year" or "new" and "Weihn" - all titles that just contain "Weihn" wouldn't appear anymore.  
So, instead of opening out my search to all titles with the "Weihn" content - I actually narrow it down.