- To understand how to do smart searching.
- To comprehend how to do research.
Success Criteria
- To be able to concentrate and be on track whilst researching.
- To be able to obtain relevant information in a short amount of time.
What is Boolean Search?
Boolean Search is a search technique which narrows down what we want to obtain. There are four major techniques:
- And- When you search for Volcano AND Earthquake, pages with both these two terms present will only appear.
- Or- When you search for Volcano OR Earthquake, pages with one of these items will appear. This allows you to search for two different things at once.
- Not- When you search for Volcano NOT Earthquake, pages will exclude Earthquake and those only with Volcano present will appear.
- "..."- When you use quotations marks "Volcano and Earthquake", this will refine your search into articles with the full phrase. This is very useful when you are looking for quotes and titles.
Why is it useful?
This techniques are very useful because it definitely refines our search. It filters the pages that are going to appear on our Google Page. This saves a lot of time because we do not need to manually filter it. With this, we can do so much in a little amount of time.
Example of questions:
- Vandalism as an art NOT crime
- Street art NOT vandalism
