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Boolean searchA search for specific data. It implies that any condition can be searched for using the Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT. For example, the English language request: "Search for all Spanish and French speaking employees who have MBAs would be expressed as follows. The Spanish and French comparison is placed in parentheses to treat them both as a single item. list for degree = "MBA" and (language = "Spanish" or language = "French") In the example below, the parentheses are missing. In this case, anybody who speaks Spanish and has an MBA or anyone who speaks French, regardless of degree, would be selected. list for degree = "MBA" and language = "Spanish" or language = "French" Boolean search [′bü·lē·ən ′sərch] (computer science) A search for selected information, that is, information satisfying conditions that can be expressed by AND, OR, and NOT functions.
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Full-text searching -- Use powerful keyword and Boolean search operators in combination with advanced search criteria, such as 300+ industry sectors and six geographic parameters. Overall, we see that Boolean search is still in limited use. 3) These researchers identified a total of 2,022 newspaper articles from a Boolean search that included the words police dog for the years 1994 through 2000. |
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