[aisle] Boolean searching does not work?

[Carol Naughton]

Google doesn't do boolean. See this link for Google search tips and tricks.
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//educators/downloads/Tips_Tricks_17x22.pdf


*Carol Naughton*
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 11:07 AM Kari S via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I had this question recently as well -- I was demoing basic Booleans to a
> class and it didn't work where in the past it has. Just now I tried a
> Google Advance Search and was able to put dolphins in the NOT box and it
> worked. HOWEVER, it showed up as *miami -dolphins* in the search bar.
> Wonder when this happened?
>
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 10:02, Lala Lala via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> It happens to me quite often that Boolean searching does not work. In a
>> search engine, I use AND, OR, NOT and I get results that I am trying to
>> avoid!
>>
>> It has gotten to the point where I don't want to show students Boolean
>> searching because, even while I am demo-ing how to do it, the results show
>> as if I am not using it! For example, in Google (not Google Advanced
>> Search), I put in Miami NOT Dophins and I get a ton of results on the Miami
>> Dolphins. It  happens in database searches, too.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? Or is this now outdated or something?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> --
>> Lori McGreal
>> Trinity High School librarian
>> lmcgreal at trinityhs.org
>> 1-708-453-9340
>>
>>
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