How Do You Search For Phrases And Expressions In Search Engines?
• Choose words. Think about words & phrases that can uniquely describe what you’re searching. Bear in mind that some search engines automatically match multiple/conjugated forms of some words, while others require an exact match, even for singular or plural words. (Example: In 2005, AOL, A9, Google & Netscape by default also looked for some singular nouns or conjugated verbs “prevent”/ “preventing” and matched “e-mail” to “email”; whereas MSN Search & Yahoo required exact matches to words specified as spelled.) Loading… • Connect words. Enter connected phrases with hyphens or quotes as a single search-item, such as “baking German-chocolate-cake” or “secret-revelation robe”: connecting separate words can pinpoint the search, whereas, putting many separate words would begin matching millions of webpages containing only a few of all the words (especially after more than 3 words/items are specified). • Connect phrases. Use logical connectors or parentheses for more complex searches such
