Topic 1 Introduction to Internet Resources
Categories Subjects Purpose Search Facilities Search Strategy
Search Engines Features
- Boolean Operators
- AND
- Narrowing the search, include both phrases
- You use AND when you find too many results and want to make your search more specific.
- Some search engines uses and, others may use +.
- Other search engines use words such as : must include, all the words, must contain.
- OR
- Expanding the search, include either of the phrases
- You use OR when you find too little results, you may want to make your search more broad and you may combine synonyms.
- Some search engines allow for OR searching but uses words such as any of the words, some of the words.
- AND NOT
- Restricting the search
- You should use AND NOT when you want to exclude undesirable words or phrases and to make your search more specific especially when you have too many irrelevant results.
- Some search engines use the lowercase not, or the (minus) sign or BUT NOT.
- Others may use words such as without the words, must not contain, must not include
- Phrase Searching,
- e.g. World War I and Global warming
- Use of parentheses, ( ), to force the order of the search
- e.g. (World War I) and Japan
- Advanced search
- allows for the use of filters, e.g. language, date, domains (.edu, .gov, .com)
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