[aisle] Boolean searching does not work?

Lala Lala lalalibrary918 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 30 08:37:50 CDT 2019


Thank you so much!

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 11:13 AM Carol Naughton via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> 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*
> *LRC Director, Community High School*
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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 Or is this now outdated or something?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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>> *Kari Stevenson*
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Lori McGreal
Trinity High School librarian
lmcgreal at trinityhs.org
1-708-453-9340
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