search engine and boolean operators
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search engines
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A search engine is a program system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.
search engine
How to use search Engines????
For example:: Type www.google.comin internet explorer: search in the blank space
Search engine consists of:
1.The crawler2. the index3.The search
algorithm
BOOLEAN OPERATORS.
Boolean Operators are simple words (AND, OR, NOT or AND NOT etc) used as conjunctions to combine or exclude keywords in a search, resulting in more focused and productive results.
Boolean Operators
AND—requires both terms to be
in each item returned. If one
term is contained in the document and the other is
not
stock market AND trading
stock market AND trading
OROR—either term (or both)
will be in the returned document.
ecology OR pollution
NOT or AND NOT ( dependent upon the coding of the database's search engine)—the first term is searched, then any records containing the term after the operators are subtracted from the results.
NOT or AND NOT
NEARUsed to in order to specify how close they are.
Using the ( ) to enclose search strategies will customize your results to more accurately reflect your topic.
Nesting.
(smoking or tobacco) and cancer
“Quotations”
To find particular phrase
"internet explorer" AND "netscape navigator"
USE CAPITAL LETTERS
FOR BOOLEANOPERATION
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