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Advanced Searches

Most of you have used search engines online at one time or another.  But you may have been ignoring a very useful feature of most search engines.  That is advanced searches.

Advanced searches enable you to narrow down your results.  Let's say you're looking for history of the oil industry.  In a regular search you might type keywords oil, history, drake, Titusville.   This would return all pages that have at least one of these words.  Probably millions of them.  But with advanced searches you can use Boolean operators such as AND and OR and even NEAR.   So to find oil history you might type oil AND history AND drake AND Titusville NEAR Pennsylvania.  Now you will only get pages that have ALL the words and to make sure you don't get the oil history of Titusville, Florida the NEAR make sure that the word Pennsylvania is near Titusville.  If you want an exact phrase enclose it in quotes, such as "oil history".  The OR operator could have either word.  There are other choices that you can experiment with such as setting the date so you don't get out-dated pages that have been deleted.  Don't be scared.  You won't break the internet.

My favorite advanced search is Altavista.
Try it here.  http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/adv

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