On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 14:37:06 -0700 (PDT), aem >
wrote:

>On Aug 9, 1:45 pm, sf wrote:
>>
>> I didn't think google does boolian searches... well, it doesn't
>> respond to "not".
>>
>Google doesn't use AND and NOT for Boolean searches, it uses the plus
>sign and the minus sign. Using them is the second most useful way to
>narrow searches usefully. Most useful, imho, is using quotation marks
>to delimit a phrase or term instead of each individual word in the
>phrase. For example:
>
> [ Olympics village food nutrition ] = 91,700 hits
> [ "Olympics village" food nutrition ] = 51 hits
> [ "Olympics vllage" -food +nutrition = 10 hits
>
>The plus and minus sign operators help a lot when doing what the OP
>was asking about. -aem

I'll put that in my memory bank... got any other useful tips for the
searches?





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