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
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