| Tips |
Examples |
Be specific
• Use nouns and unique words
•
Put the most important words first
• Use multiple
terms when possible |
If
you were interested in "bias in newspapers"
you could search for:
newspapers bias slant censorship
journalism
|
| 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" |
| 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" |
| Use a minus sign -
in front of a word to exclude its search |
If you wanted
pages on fusion but not cold fusion you can prevent
"cold" from being searched:
- cold
fusion |
|
Use
lower case letters to find words that are either
lower and upper case |
japanese
internment
"world war ii" |
|
Use
parentheses around terms that are alike. Enter
connectors in capital letters |
(adolescents
OR teenagers)
television AND children |
