Use Boolean searching, truncation, wildcards, and proximity limiters to enhance your search.
Boolean | ||
AND | entrepreneur and team | Returns articles that contain BOTH words. |
OR | entrepreneur or intrapreneur | Returns articles that contain EITHER word. |
( ) | (entrepreneur or intrapreneur) and interviews | Grouped searching. Returns articles that contain EITHER word in parenthesis AND the word interviews. |
Truncation | ||
* | entrepreneur* | Returns articles that contain the root "entrepreneur" on its own and any variations: entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial, etc. |
Wildcard | ||
? | wom?n | Variants of the one letter versus an entire ending as with the asterisk. Wom?n would return articles with "women" or "woman" or "womyn". |
Proximity - Words in same order | ||
wX | market x2 share | Returns articles where the words market and share are no more than 2 words apart and in that order. |
Proximity - Words in any order | ||
nX | market n2 share | Returns articles where the words market and share are no more than 2 words apart in any order. (market share or share of the market) |