Start with a wide search, then begin to narrow it if you get too much. Use other types of searching if the search engines don't return enough. Try Archie, Veronica, FTP, gopher, etc. 4. Some sites are slower than others due to a variety of reasons. To make them faster, look in options and turn off the graphics.
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Boolean operators - Tools to narrow your search. Looking for documents that contain words for all the colors of the British and American flags. Use red AND white AND blue. This will give back hits that contain all the terms in the record. Use it when you have dissimilar terms and want to narrow the results to a few precise hits.