Tips for formulating searches
become familiar with several search engines
study search engine instructions for simple and advanced techniques
check to see whether automatic stemming or automatic truncation is used
select terms and consider unique words, phrases, and synonyms, don’t use very common words
most search engines permit Boolean searching in various forms:
- “and” “or” or “not”
- pull down menus - “all the words”
- plus (+) or minus ( -)