Boolean Explained and Advance Google Search Please feel free to refer to this guide while doing the exercises for this lesson Background Boolean Operators are named after the English Mathematician George Boole. Boole demonstrated how using a series of logic can help one to go through a large amount of data to find the information that they wanted. Today Boolean operators are known to help us search for information on the internet. Boolean Operators Examples Searches for words and phrases, in the exact order you type them. It’s handy Quotation marks when searching for song lyrics or a line from a book. “ ” mothers” “working action” ”affirmative Excluding Searches for the first terms but exclude websites with this information E.g. search for acute pancreatitis but not in cat, not dog, or pancreatic -word cancer -“phrase in quotes” pancreatitis” diet cancer” “acute –cat –dog –“pancreatic OR allows more than OR requires at least one of the terms to appear somewhere in the document, one term in any order. OR americans” OR blacksear OR nose OR throat “african The more words you enter connected by OR, the more documents dogs OR cats you get. allows with at Broadens the search.. one of the terms The OR operator is generally used to join similar, equivalent, or synonymous concepts. global warming" OR "greenhouse effect AND (default) AND is the default and only needs to be typed if you are using other Boolean operators with ( ). From Google’s point of view, search for Titan Moon is the same as dogs AND cats searching for webpages with both Titan and Moon in it. is the small overlap The more words you enter connected by AND, the fewer documents where both terms you get. occur The AND operator is generally used to join different kinds of concepts, different aspects of the question. "global warming" AND "sea level rise" AND california
Boolean Explained and Advance Google Search Please feel free to refer to this guide while doing the exercises for this lesson Background Boolean Operators are named after the English Mathematician George Boole. Boole demonstrated how using a series of logic can help one to go through a large amount of data to find the information that they wanted. Today Boolean operators are known to help us search for information on the internet. Boolean Operators Examples Quotation marks “ ” Searches for words and phrases, in the exact order you type them. It’s handy when searching for song lyrics or a line from a book. “working mothers” ”affirmative action” Excluding -word -“phrase in quotes” Searches for the first terms but exclude websites with this information E.g. search for acute pancreatitis but not in cat, not dog, or pancreatic cancer “acute pancreatitis” diet –cat –dog –“pancreatic cancer” OR allows more than one term OR dogs OR cats allows with at one of the terms OR requires at least one of the terms to appear somewhere in the document, in any order. “african americans” OR blacksear OR nose OR throat The more words you enter connected by OR, the more documents you get. Broadens the search.. The OR operator is generally used to join similar, equivalent, or synonymous concepts. global warming" OR "greenhouse effect AND (default) dogs AND cats is the small overlap where both terms occur AND is the default and only needs to be typed if you are using other Boolean operators with ( ). From Google’s point of view, search for Titan Moon is the same as searching for webpages with both Titan and Moon in it. The more words you enter connected by AND, the fewer documents you get. The AND operator is generally used to join different kinds of concepts, different aspects of the question. "global warming" AND "sea level rise" AND california
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