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Understanding search techniques

One method is the use of connectors called Boolean operators.

The connectors include the words AND, OR and NOT.

The AND operator is used to narrow a search. All keywords entered must be present in the list of results.

The purple shaded area in the following diagram represents the records that contain both keywords, Food AND Marketing.

The and operator.[d]

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