Welcome to my e-book on Search Engines for the world wide web by Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner. A Visual quickstart guide published by Peachtree press, ISBN 0-201-73401-x, read in December 2005.
PART OF APPENDIX A
| for this type of search | do this: | example: |
|---|---|---|
| Plain- english question | Type in question. | What is ? ? |
| Phrase Search | surround by "double qoutes" | "?" |
| AND search | place (+) plus sign in front of each word | +london+"art museum" |
| OR search | no special notation | stratford shakespeare |
| NOT search | use the (-) minus sign before the word. | +pyton_monty |
| case sesitive search | use lowercase to find any combination of lower case and uppercase. Use capital letters(initial or combination of lc and uc to force and exact match | bath finds bath, Bath,or BATH Bath finds BATH, not bath, BATH BATH finds only BATH |
| date search | n/a | |
| field search | Type field search keyword in lowercase, followed by a colon (:), followed by search word or phrase | host:cambridge.edu |
| nested search | n/a | |
| proximity search | n/a | |
| wildcard search | use an (*)asterisk at the end of or within a word, along with at least three letters at the beginning of the search term | brit* col*r |
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