Tips for Better Search Results
Tips
Examples

Be specific
• Use nouns and unique words
• Put the most important words first
• Use multiple terms when possible

If you were interested in "bias in newspapers" you could search for:
newspapers bias slant censorship journalism
Use quotes " " around phrases
so the search engine will search for the words as a phrase not as separate words		 To look for a term, rather than search the individual words in a term, use quotes around it:
"world health organization"
Use a plus sign     +
in front of a word or a phrase to require its search		 A word or a phrase preceded by a + must be present in all pages returned
+"absentee voting"    +"assisted suicide"

Use a minus sign     -
in front of a word to exclude its search

 If you wanted pages on fusion but not cold fusion you can prevent "cold" from being searched:
-cold fusion
Use lower case letters to find words that are either lower or upper case
japanese internment
"world war ii"
Use parentheses (  ) around terms that are alike. Enter connectors in capital letters
 (adolescents OR teenagers)
television AND children
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