Aahhhrrrrrrgggghh!! I am tired of typing in a phrase like, say, "planes and boats and trains" into the web search box and having all sorts of stuff come up about "trains" or "boats" or "planes," even if I have put the phrase in brackets or in quotation marks.

Say I want to find an 18th or 19th C. novel that has a character named Prudence who is a harelip. How do I specify that in a google (or other search-engine) search. so that I won't have to wade through stuff that's not literature, not 18th or 19th C., and does not have a character with those characteristics.    Or say I want to find a song lyric that has a particular phrase? How do I tell the seach engine to look only for the entire phrase and only within song lyrics?

Some of you folks seem to be pretty handy at searching the web. How do you do it?

Genie