Boolean Search Terms

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

• Eating OR healthily

• Eating AND healthily

• Eating NOT healthily

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

• Least popular at the top

• Most popular at the top

• Oldest at the top

• Newest at the top

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

• Specific

• Quick

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

• Combining two or more keywords in a search term.

• Allowing you to eliminate specific results that you know you don’t want.

The expression ‘NOT’ allows you to...

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

• search for more than one piece of information at the same time.

• combine two or more keywords in a search term.

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

• Find the words tennis racquet or manchester

• Find websites that don't contain the word tennis racquet

• Find websites that contain the word tennis racquet

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

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

• AND

• OR

• NOT

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

• AND

• OR

• NOT

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

• NOT

• OR

• AND

Which of the following searches would find information on computer games?

• computer games

• "computer games"

• computer AND games