What is Boolean searching?
Three common Boolean operators are AND, OR, and NOT. The AND operator between two words will result in documents which contain both of these words. Example: typing pear AND apple will return only hits with both words on the same page. The OR operator between two words or other values means you are searching for documents that contain at least one of the words. Typing pear OR apple will return hits if the word “pear” is on the page or the word “apple” is on the page or if both words are on the page. The AND NOT operator between two words or other values means you are searching for documents that contain the first word before the AND NOT operator, but not the second word that follows it. An example is pear AND NOT apple, will return hits only if a page has the word “pear”, but if the page has both of the words, the result will not be displayed. You can use these Boolean operators and many others in the search box located at the top of the page. You may also use the advanced search which
