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Proximity searching

Proximity searching is a method where the user of a search can indicate the number of words that can be between keywords. For example if the proximity was one there would only be one word allowed between the keywords, so if the query "knives forks" was entered results such as "knives and forks" "knives n forks" would be returned. Results such as "knives and wooden handled forks" would not not be returned.