Dialog: Improving Searches: Broadening & Narrowing
Broadening Your Search
Do when your search resulted in Zero or very few relevant records.
Techniques to broaden the search include:
Select different or add additional databases to search.
Use the
or
operator with:
Additional alternative or synonymous terms.
With more fields or when searching all of each record in the database.
Set the limiting numbers associated with proximity operators (
w
,
n
) to higher numbers.
Eliminate or minimize
and
or
not
operators that may be limiting your search too much.
Narrowing Your Search
Do when your search resulted in too many records, many of which are irrelevant.
Techniques to narrow the search include:
Select different or reduce the number of databases to search.
Select more specific search terms.
Combine appropriate terms by using
and
or
not
operators.
Set the limiting numbers associated with proximity operators (
w
,
n
) to lower (closer) numbers.
Eliminate
or
operators that may be overly expanding the results of your search.
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LT65 INDEX
To:
GREENSHEET
To:
To:
TOP OF PAGE:
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