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Tips
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Examples
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Be
specific
• Use nouns and unique words
• Put the most important words first
• Use multiple terms when possible
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If
you were interested in "bias in newspapers" you could
search for:
newspapers bias slant censorship journalism
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| 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"
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| 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
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If
you wanted pages on fusion but not cold fusion you can prevent
"cold" from being searched:
- cold fusion
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Use
lower case letters to find words that are either lower
and upper case
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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 AND children |
