Tips for Better Search Results
Tips for Better Search Results
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Be specific
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If you were interested in "censorship in newspapers" you could search for: newspapers AND censorship |
| Use quotes around phrases so the search engine will search for the words as a phrase not as separate words | To look for a term, rather than search the individual words in a term, use quotes around it: "world health organization" |
| Use a plus sign + in front of a word or a phrase to require its search | A word or a phrase preceded by a + must be present in all pages returned +"absentee voting" +"assisted suicide" |
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Use a minus sign- in front of a word to exclude its search |
If you wanted pages on fusion but not cold fusion you can prevent "cold" from being searched: - cold fusion |
| Use lower case letters to find words that are either lower and upper case |
japanese internment "world war ii" |
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Use parentheses around terms that are alike. Enter connectors
in capital letters
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(adolescents OR teenagers) (television or TV) AND children |
 
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