title: Boolean operators and the naive end-user: moving to AND
abstract: Since so few end-users make use of Boolean searching, it is obvious that any effective solution needs to take this reality into account. The most important aspect of a technical solution should be that it does not require any effort on the part of users. What is clearly needed is for search engine designers and programmers to take account of the information-seeking behavior of Internet users. Users must be able to enter a series of words at random and have those words automatically treated as a carefully constructed Boolean AND search statement
keyphrases: Boolean operators Boolean searching search engine design information-seeking behavior Internet AND operator