Last month's tip looked at search strategies, including the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT, as a way of finding the information you're looking for and avoiding unrelated information. This month continues in that direction, giving some tips for improving your searches on the World Wide Web. Entries will be shown on the Results page of your search. You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to search more effectively. This is how close the entry fits the criteria.
Higher numbers are better.
If you use Infoseek, it helps to read the hints. Net Search does not use the words AND, OR and NOT as Boolean operators, but it does Boolean searches in its own way. All terms listed next to each other act like OR relations. For example, writing peanut butter would give you everything about peanuts and everything about butter, including peanut butter. You can make a NOT relation by putting a space then a hyphen in front of a word you don't want.