Title: Specific searches
Last modified: January 24, 2018

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# Specific searches

 *  Resolved [user2015](https://wordpress.org/support/users/user2015/)
 * (@user2015)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specific-searches/)
 * I have a question regarding a search for books in a library.
    If I want to make
   a search for all books related to criminal law written by a particular author(
   Carlos Perez), I have to write: Carlos Perez + criminal law or it will bring 
   me all books related to criminal law together with all books written by Carlos
   Perez regardless of whether they are related to this topic or any other else?

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 *  Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * (@msaari)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specific-searches/#post-9900593)
 * Depends on your search settings. If your default operator is “AND”, searching
   for “carlos perez criminal law” will only return results that contain all four
   words. If your default operator is “OR”, that search will return any post that
   has even one of the words, but will prefer those that match more than one.
 *  Thread Starter [user2015](https://wordpress.org/support/users/user2015/)
 * (@user2015)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specific-searches/#post-9901496)
 * Ok, thank you!

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