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Advanced searching (Phrases

and / or operators etc.)

Advanced search is a built – in

feature of Google that allows a user to

specify additional requirements for a

search. When used for searching the web, an

advanced search gives additional information to

Google, which helps refine the search.

 Searching for phrases

If you wish to search for a phrase, rather

than individual key words, you can place

quotation marks (“….”) around the phrase.

 Truncation

To truncate key words means to search

articles containing words in the same word family.

(eg: Bank*)

 Boolean operators

It is a type of search allowing users to

combine keywords with operators such as AND,

NOT, and OR to further produce more relevant

results. For example, a Boolean search could be

“hotel” and “New York”. This would limit the search

results to only those documents containing the two

keywords.

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