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Advanced search strategies
 

All search engines provide the user with the option of doing advanced searches.  Advanced searches are useful because they give you the option of including and excluding words from a search.  To do an advanced search look for a link on the search engines Web page that says “advanced search.”  Clicking on this link will take you to a page with advanced search options. The following chart also provides a number of methods for doing advanced searches on most search engines.

 

Operator What it does Example

“ ”

 Indicates a series of words that must appear next to each other. “Good day sunshine”
returns pages with this exact phrase.

+

 Indicates that all the words must appear in the Web page. sports+hockey
will return pages that include both sports and hockey

-

 Tells the search engine you do not want a word to appear in your search. Sport-hockey
Will return pages with sports but not on hockey

*

 Use the wildcard (*) to search for plurals or variations of words. sing*  finds singing and sings theat* finds theater and theatre

AND, OR and NOT

 Can be used in some search engines to specify your search Sports AND hockey NOT (baseball OR basketball)
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