Module 4 - Boolean Task

Boolean Search Task using Google search engine

Full Boolean Search

OR: 316,000,000 for advanced or internet or users. (0.47 seconds)
AND: 279,000,000 for advanced and internet and users. (0.31 seconds)
NOT: 136,000,000 for advanced not internet not users. (0.07 seconds)
NEAR: 17,500,000 for advanced near internet near users. (0.23 seconds)

Implied Boolean Search
+ (and): 88,000,000 for advanced +internet +users. (0.35 seconds)
- (not): 14,400 for advanced - internet - users. (0.14 seconds)

Google Advanced Internet Search

Google Advanced Search, offers numerous options for making your searches more precisely enabling the user to get more useful results. I have used the Google Advanced Search facility below.

with all of the words: 81,500,000 for advanced internet users. (0.05 seconds)
with the exact phrase: 13,800 for "advanced internet users". (0.16 seconds)
with at least one of the words: 2,730,000,000 for advanced OR internet OR users. (0.32 seconds)

Advanced search help http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/help/refinesearch.html

Question: the biggest number of hits relating to advanced internet users?

Answer: The Full Boolean search gave me 316,000,000 hits using the logical operator “OR”
But using Google’s Advanced Search facility I got a MASSIVE 2,730,000,000 hits using the “with at least one of the words” Template Terminology.