You can refine your searches on Jumpcut by adding a number of different parameters to your queries. Searches include title, description, username and tags.

Basic options…

[ apple banana ]
Finds items that contain at least one of the two words

[ +apple +juice ]
Finds items that contain both words

[ +apple -macintosh ]
Finds items that contain the word “apple” but not “macintosh”

[ apple* ]
Finds items that contain words such as “apple”, “apples”, “applesauce”, or “applet”

[ “some words” ]
Finds items that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”)

Advanced stuff…

[ +apple macintosh ]
Finds items that contain the word “apple”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “macintosh”

[ +apple ~macintosh ]
Finds items that contain the word “apple”, but if the row also contains the word “macintosh”, rate it lower than if row does not. This is “softer” than a search for ‘+apple -macintosh’, for which the presence of “macintosh” causes the row not to be returned at all.

[ +apple +(>turnover ]
Finds items that contain the words “apple” and “turnover”, or “apple” and “strudel” (in any order), but rank “apple turnover” higher than “apple strudel”