Most of the popular Internet search tools permit some form of phrase searching . This option allows you to specify that your terms must appear adjacent to one another and in the exact order in which they were entered. This is helpful when looking for names of people or organizations. This technique is similar to truncation in that it allows the insertion of a character to retrieve variant forms of that word. The difference is that the wildcard character may be inserted within the word.
Databases vary in how they treat the techniques outlined above.
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