Googlesmithing for beginnners

[max]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 16:13 -0400, max wrote:
>> Say you want to search for Han Solo and Chewbacca. Try this in your 
>> search field:
>>
>> Han Solo +Chewbacca
> 
> You mean:
> 
> "Han Solo" +Chewbacca
> 
> otherwise "Han" and "Solo" will match separately (not that it's likely
> to matter in this case). In fact:
> 
Yes it didn't matter but you are correct.
> "Han Solo" Chewbacca
> 
> would do exactly the same thing, since "Chewbacca" is not a common term
> (such as "a", "the", "and" etc.) which would otherwise be supressed.
> 
> poc
> 
Yes in this case the plus sign does little, the imagination is key here 
to get the most out of your search, it was just the first thing that 
came to mind and it was simple. Usually I have found the minus sign to 
be more useful. I didn't mention the suppression of common terms , 
thanks for pointing that out.

-Max

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