This blog series from Mikael Svenson’s blog is excellent, at least for a less knowledgeable on how on Earth the search works, if it works. TechNet does include a lot of same info and more but this series does make this a bit more understandable. And reading through both has it’s benefits. Rinse and repeat 🙂
http://www.techmikael.com/2014/03/sharepoint-search-queries-explained.html
P.S. You can get this as a book!
P.P.S. His blog is in overall a good source of SharePoint search related stuff.
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