If you have any experience with social media monitoring platforms, you know that getting precise results may be tricky at times: Apps can show a lot of noise for brands with common names or, quite the ...

A search for data that meets several criteria by using the Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT (see Boolean logic). For example, the request: "Search for all Spanish and French speaking employees who ...

Monitoring social media is as rewarding as it’s overwhelming. Even with reliable social media tools at your disposal, getting 100% accurate results can be problematic. Social media is huge, and ...

Google Search has some hidden features — it can help you travel, act as a calculator and converter, and use Boolean operators ...

* Please note that this is for a uni assignment so I'm not after a solution - just after a bit of insight into the problem * I've been tasked with writing a "small search engine that is boolean aware" ...

Reader Paul writes in with a handy Craigslist searching tip: Contrary to popular belief, Craigslist does have an Boolean "OR" search method; it can be done by placing ...

A little bit of computer science has made it possible to reduce the time it takes to find new genes from years to milliseconds. Researchers at Stanford University have developed a simple processing ...

Several centuries ago, during the Merovingian period I think, I taught whole courses on online searching. Those skills are still important, and I’m still teaching them in different guises and ...

[Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from Take Control of Apple Mail, available for download from TidBITS Publishing for $15. The 175-page ebook, which covers Mail for both Mavericks and iOS 7, ...

A search that involves the use of Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT, which refine the scope of the search by including or excluding documents. AND and NOT narrow the search, while the OR operator ...