You use a search engine, like HotBot , by giving the engine key words to look for. Engines search the Internet in various ways. You can narrow your search by using Boolean logic. Narrow your key words to narrow your search. If you have a phrase to search, put the phrase in quotes.
Some engines use parentheses instead of quotation marks.
Check the engine's Help section. Notice there are no spaces with this type of query. Some engines are case sensitive for capital letters and some are not. NEAR means, as it says, the key words have to be within a certain number of words of each other. Some engines allow you to specify the range, some do not and use a default number, for example, within 10 words.