[blindLaw] Slightly offtopic: question about boolean searches

[Áine Kelly-Costello]

On google, use  - before the word to exclude, attached to the word, and + to include (for single words, same effect as quotes). :) 

> On 14/09/2019, at 9:19 AM, Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Since this list consists of highly sophisticated legal practitioners, I thought it would be prudent to ask this question here. I use two main strategies to conduct online advanced searches on Google:
> A. Putting the search phrases in quotation marks, without separating them with any word or punctuation mark in between. There is only a space in between.
> B. Using capitalized ‘AND” and “OR” between search terms. When I deploy this second approach, I do not surround the search terms with brackets or anything else.
> 
> Now, I believe a better way to search without quotation marks is by surrounding the search terms in brackets. However, I don’t quite understand how this works, and what advantage it has over searching for terms without brackets, but while separating them with “AND” and “OR”. Can someone please explain this?
> 
> Second, how can I actually exclude some terms from search results on Google? Using a capitalized “NOT” before the word does not achieve this. Thank you.
> 
> Rahul
> 
> 
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