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 | type words or phrases seperated by a space you can use the boolean operator AND to connect two or more search terms, or put a (+) plus sign in front of each word | london museum london and museum +london+"art museum" |
| OR search | Use the boolean operator OR to combine words and phrases | woodworking or cabinetry |
| NOT search | use the boolean operator NOT to exclude a word or phrase. | " custom windows" not software |
| case sesitive search | n/a | |
| date search | n/a | |
| field search | n/a | |
| nested search | Use parentheses to group earch expressions into more complex queries | hardware and (antiqua or reproduction) |
| proximity search | AOL Search allows three different proximity operators, which you can type in uppercase or lowercase ADJ to find words next to each other, the example will find stripping paint and paint stripping NEAR or NEAR/n to find one search term within a specified distance (n is number of words) W/n to find one term within a specified distance after another | pain adj stripping moss NEAR/5 roof moss W/5 roof |
| wildcard search | use an (*)asterisk at the beginning, middle, or end of a word Use a question mark (?) to match a single character | brit* |
USE THE BACK BUTTON TO RETURN or click here
