1. How to Search the Internet Effectively Evelyn Gonzales O.

4. Use of Phrases: two or more words that must be found in the documents Example: "feta cheese“ Punctuation and Capitalization : Uppercase, lowercase, or a mix of cases “lowercase is the safest form to use”

5. BooleanBasics: Three most common Boolean commands are AND, OR and AND NOT. AND: only documents that contain both/all words Example: “USA AND Mexico” OR: documents that contain either word; I don't care which. Example: USA OR Mexico”

6. AND NOT: Documents that contain this word, but not if the document also contains another word. Example: “USA” AND “Mexico” AND NOT “Mexicano

7. Use nouns no articles ("a," "the"), pronouns ("he," "it"), conjunctions ("and," "or") or prepositions ("to," "from") in your queries Use 6 to 8 keywords per query combine keywords into phrases by using quotation marks, as in “Mexico" Spell carefully Avoid redundant terms Check the "Help" function in you need more help