Refining your Internet Search

Examples of what this can mean: Put your most important keywords first in the string. Words that must appear together (use _____) Words that must appear within the same document (use AND or +) Either word appears in the document (use OR) Words that should not appear in the same document (use NOT or -) NO space between the sign (+ or -) and the keyword Type keywords and phrases in lower case to find both lower and uppercase versions. Typing capital letters will usually return only an exact match. Example: president retrieves both president and President What do you think will Search Topic happen to the # of results? Cats Cats as "ets (Cats as "ets)
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