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Boolean operators

gillian.siddall

Created on August 23, 2018

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AND

Searching using Boolean Operators.

Focusing your search.

NOT

OR

AND

Use AND to narrow down your search.

These are all the results for chocolate.

These are all the results for wellbeing.

chocolate

wellbeing

This section shows the results for both keywords - a more focused set to review.

OR

Use OR to combine keywords that are the same or similar. For example, American versus British Spellings.

OR

OR

wellbeing

well-being

well being

OR will allow you to broaden your search, bringing up results for any of the words combined with OR.

NOT

Use NOT to narrow down your search. It's useful if you keep on seeing things that are not related to your search. Use with care.

This will give you results for chocolate (not including anything that also references coffee)

All the results relating to coffee

coffee

chocolate

Using NOT will exclude anything that includes the keywords coffee.