The most effective way is not to do it. We tested this in an Oil and
Gas thick desktop app and concluded after many years that users may
say they understand AND vs OR but they clearly do not. In one case we
even parroted back a scenario asked for by geologists and engineeers
in a usability test that failed miserably. Participants simply did
not understand the subleties of the search results when mixing AND/OR
between search statements and within Search parameters. In the end we
went back to the lessons learned in our very successful legacy app
and applied the same logic. AND between search statements. OR within
a search Statement. Nothing else!
http://energy.ihs.com/NR/rdonlyres/B3F9B75E-821E-40A0-B9B2-2293055B3082/0/query_large.gif



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