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Thread #53020 Message #813939
Posted By: Genie
29-Oct-02 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: Tech: How do you narrow a web search?
Subject: RE: Tech: How do you narrow a web search?
Well, Google's instructions say to put the phrase in quotation marks if you want to look only for those words in that order. So I typed in "Let Us Smile...Umbrella" and I got sent to a patio umbrella supplier. Same thing happened when I typed poetry:smile+umbrella. When I just typed in ""Let Us Smile" I got sent to a number of sites that had to do with smiles but didn't have the exact phrase.
Sorcha, I do use synonyms when it seems appropriate, but usually my problem is to narrow the field, not broaden it.