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What do quotes do in a search?
Short answer. They find that exact phrase, in the same order.
What does jaguar -car return?
Pages about the animal, because minus removes the car pages.
Search operators
| Type | Does |
|---|---|
| "exact words" | exact phrase |
| jaguar -car | removes car |
| site:gov.in | one website |
Remember
| Clear keywords |
| Quotes, minus, site: |
Getting useless search results? Fix your query. Use clear keywords. Quotes find the exact phrase. Minus removes a word. Site colon searches only one website or domain. Use clear keywords. Add quotes, minus or site colon.
This clip is from the full lesson: Search Engines and Finding Information Online — 7 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: CBSE Class 10 Computer Applications (165), NIOS Senior Secondary Data Entry Operations (336)
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