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* Accuracy of Results

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Some Tips On Searching


When you perform a standard 1 or 2 term search with any of the utilities above, you will probably find a hundred-thousand matches!

There are a number of ways to improve your searches.

  • Look for an ADVANCED OPTIONS button on the search page. This will allow you to use the search utilities' best features and strengths to your advantage.

  • Some search utilities divide the WWW into categories. This will narrow your search to only those subject areas.

  • Other utilities do Site Reviews or offer Weekly-Monthly Highlighted Sites.

  • Another option, if you don't mind dead links or what could be possible objectionable material, is to spin the roulette wheel (use [Special] button of Webcrawler above) and randomly find sites.

  • Boolean Operators (AND, NOT, and OR) let you combine terms that define what you are trying to find.
    They must be in CAPITAL letters and have a SPACE before and after. You can combine as many terms and operators as possible to narrow your search.

    Example: restaurant AND Lorain AND Ohio AND italian OR mexican

    You can also use NOT to eliminate terms that might match, but you know you do not want.

    Example: restaurant AND Lorain NOT italian

    Some site have additional boolean operators:
    ADJ - adjacent words
    NEARnn - words seperated by less than nn words.
    Note: Some engines use + or - signs instead of the words AND or NOT.

Using boolean is not necessary with the search engines that accept phrases. More of the web search engines are beginning to use a phrase type of search entry, and getting smarter. Hopefully this information will help keep your search matches under six figures.

 

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