Module 2 - Search Techniques
Lesson 3e - Boolean exercise
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Now you try... 

In the following examples, which number represents the area that will fulfill the Boolean search?  Here's an example to show you how it works:

Boolean search:  happiness AND money

happiness
money

  

In the above diagram, the left circle represents all the articles that contain the word happiness.  The right circle represents all the articles that contain the word money.  Our search is happiness AND money.  Which part of the diagram shows the articles that the computer would find?  If you said section 2, you would be correct.  This is the place in the diagram where the articles contain BOTH words. 

 

Exercise 2.2 - Boolean

Now, try these examples on your own:

1. education AND success

education 
success

2. girls OR women

girls
women

3. plants NOT power

plants
power

 

4. education AND women AND UAE

UAE

education
women

 

5. (girls OR women) AND media  

media

 

girls
women

 

6. education NOT primary AND globalization

globalization

education
primary

 

Check your answers!

 


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