Searching on the Internet

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Table of Contents

Database Search Success 

Syntax and Semantics

How does the search engine handle: a word

Finding: A Word

How does the search engine handle: pluralization

Pluralization

Pluralization

Pluralization—Boolean OR

Pluralization

Pluralization

How does the search engine handle: a phrase

A Phrase—Adjacency

A Phrase—Boolean AND

A Phrase—Boolean AND

A Phrase—Boolean OR

A Phrase—Boolean OR

Fuzzy OR - AND/OR

Default Multi-Word Search

Default Multi-Word Search

Forcing Adjacency

Forcing Adjacency

Proximity

Proximity

Proximity

Field Searching

Field Searching

Field Searching

“Hidden” Web Content

Synonyms

Synonyms

Synonyms

How does the search engine handle: combining synonyms

Synonyms

How does the search engine handle: combining different concepts

Different Concepts

Boolean Searching

Boolean Searching

Requires/Excludes Terms

Requires/Excludes Terms

Synonyms Combined with Different Concepts

Synonyms Combined with Different Concepts

Search Engine Syntax Summaries

Author: Keith Stanger

Email: keith@stanger.com

Home Page: http://keithstanger.com/