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Phrase Searching
| EXAMPLES |
| Enclose words as a phrase within
quotes. |
"National Honor Society"
"William J. Clinton"
Requires all the words and characters to be retrieved
exactly as keyed, in the same order. |
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Truncation
| EXAMPLES
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| Right-hand truncation with * as
"wildcard character |
bask*
retrieves basket, basketball, baskets,
etc |
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+ (Require Term) or -
(Exclude Term)
| EXAMPLES
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+ immediately before a word
or phrase in
" " requires the term to be present in documents.
+ before more than one term requires them all to be
present
Equivalent to Boolean AND. |
+"basket weaving"
requires the phrase to be in documents or categories
retrieved.
+computer +program
retrieves documents or categories with both terms.
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If you do not specify +
to require a term nor - to exclude a term, the default is to
retrieve documents with either term or both.
Equivalent of Boolean OR. |
+"basket weaving" craft
hobby
requires the phrase "basket weaving" and will accept
documents containing any or all of the terms "craft" or "hobby".
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- immediately before a word
or phrase in
" " excludes documents containing the term(s).
Use after at least one other term that is not excluded (you may not
do a sub-search containing only - terms). |
basket weav* +straw* -Arizona*
excludes terms containing "Arizona" from results
in which "straw" is required along with either "basket" or "weaving,
weaver," etc. |
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Search Title (t:)
or URL(u:)
| EXAMPLES
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t:
requires word or phrase to be in title field. |
t:diversity
t:"baskets weaving"
These retrieve documents with the term "diversity"
or the phrase "baskets weaving" in their titles.
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u:
requires characters to be in the URL or address of a site. |
u:berkeley.edu
retrieves records with "berkeley.edu" in their
URLs. |
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Case INSenSiTiviTY
| EXAMPLES
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| Capital letters are ignored. You
may key them if you wish. |
National Airport
also retrieves "national airport" |
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Category Searching
| EXAMPLES
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| After inputting a search argument,
choose to search only within the category, as opposed to all of Yahoo!
|
If you get too many results
from a search on K-12 Education,
Select "search with K-12 Education" and add another
term, such as mathematics |
