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 or phrase. | What is ? ? |
| Phrase Search | surround by "double qoutes" | "?" |
| AND search | type words or phrases seperated by a space use a (+) plus sign or AND in front of each word | london museum +london+"art museum" london AND"art museum" |
| OR search | Types words or phrases seperated by OR lowercase or uppercase. | woodworking OR cabinetry |
| NOT search | use a minus(-) sign directly in front of the word or phrase you want to exclude or use NOT u/l. | "custom windows" -software "custom windows" not software |
| case sesitive search | n/a | |
| date search | n/a | |
| field search | Type a field-search term followed by a colon(:) and the search word or phrase. No space after the colon. TITLES: use 'title:' with one or more search words. URLs: use 'url:' with one or more search words. LINKS: use link: with a specific web address to find all pages that link to that address. The example would find pages that link to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | title: "favorite poem project" url:pdf1099 link:www.uspto.gov |
| nested search | use parentheses to group boolean expressions into more complex queries | SAT AND ("sample test" or "prep course") |
| proximity search | n/a | |
| wildcard search | Use an asterisk at end or within a word, use a percent sign to look for a single character. * most be preceded by at least four characters |
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