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Advanced search techniques

Boolean logic is a fancy term for combining keywords together with the words AND, OR or NOT.

AND

• Using the AND operator between terms retrieves documents containing all of the terms
• This narrows strong> the search.
• This example will retrieve records that contain both Blue and Yellow

OR

• OR operator retrieves documents containing either term
• This broadens the search.
• This example will retrieve records that contain Blue ,Yellow or both Blue and Yellow

NOT

• NOT excludes terms from your search
• Use NOT with caution.
• This example will retrieve records that contain Yellow , but that do not contain Blue