Boolean Searching
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The document provides examples of using Boolean search operators like "and", "or", and "not" to narrow, broaden, or define searches on library catalogs, Google, and other search engines. It also gives examples of using wildcard symbols and phrases in different languages to broaden or narrow results.
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Boolean Searching
- 1. Allows you to combine the words and, or, not to limit, widen or define your search.
- 2. Go to NPS Library Catalog Click on the Power Tab Boolean search terms are provided for you Type in dogs on the first line Click the word and Type in cats on the second line. Hit search Next, type in dogs on the first line. Click on the word not Type in fiction. Search
- 3. Go to Google Type in Henry VII What do you find? Google Advanced Type in Henry VII Include Shakespeare How are the results different?
- 4. Go to Google Type in camera + instructions (narrows search) Camera or darkroom (broadens search) Camera not digital (narrows search) Type in the word pirate* (broaden searches) Symbols or Wildcard Searching
- 5. Google: food Tyson likes Results????
- 6. Quelle est la population de la plus grande France? What does this mean? What is the answer?
- 7. After a trip around the world, you return home with 52 British pound sterling, 5300 Serbian diner, and 120 euro. How much is this in U.S. dollars?