Boolean Search Terms

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If you wanted to learn more about how to eat healthily, your search term might include the keywords...

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Eating AND healthily

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When a search engine returns the results of your search they are sorted into order of...

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Most popular at the top

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Boolean expressions, such as AND, OR and NOT, allow you to make your search terms more...

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Specific

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Search engines use the Boolean expression ‘AND’ to refine searches by...

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Combining two or more keywords in a search term.

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The expression ‘NOT’ allows you to...

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eliminate specific results that you know you don’t want.

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The search term “buy tennis racquets” AND Manchester will do what?

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Only find websites that contain the exact phrase “buy tennis racquets” along with the word ‘manchester’.

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Which Boolean expression would be used to search for websites that feature both of two keywords?

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AND

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Which Boolean expression would be used to omit a keyword from a search?

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NOT

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Which Boolean expression would be used to look for two keywords but not necessarily websites that feature both?

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OR

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Which of the following searches would find information on computer games? Options: computer games, "computer games", computer AND games

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"computer games"