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

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

• NOT

• OR

• AND

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 omit a keyword from a search?

• AND

• OR

• NOT

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

Which of the following searches would find information on computers but not games?

• computers OR games

• computers AND games

• computers NOT games

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.

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

• AND

• OR

• NOT

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

• computer games

• "computer games"

• computer AND games