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Tips
for better searching
- Capitalise
(ie. a capital first letter) names and titles, such as December
and Star Wars.
- Use
double quotation marks or hyphens to group words that are part
of a phrase. eg. "Rugby World Cup".
- Place
a plus sign in front of words that must be in documents found
by the search. Do not put a space between the plus sign and
the word. eg. "Rugby World Cup" +Wales.
- Place
a minus sign in front of words that should not appear in any
documents found by the search. Do not put a space between the
minus sign and the word. eg. "World Cup" -football.
- Narrow
down your results by refining your query.
- If
you're entering terms with symbols and numbers (eg. C++, 100
BC) you will probably have less luck than if you choose words
eg. "programming languages", "ancient history".
- Use
a wildcard - ie. an asterisk * - after a keyword. For example,
bank* should find you bankers or banking.
- To
restrict the results of your search to UK sites only type in
domain:uk after your keywords, or try some of the UK
based search engines listed below.
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