NTI LifeSkills - Lesson 1 Search Tech--LO1

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Section Navigation	Lesson 1: Internet Research of Benefits
	Logical Operators As most of you probably know, the Internet is a vast network of computers with information made available for searching through many databases. The most productive way to search the Internet for information is to use key words or terms with Boolean search techniques, called logical operators. In the example below the key words are underlined. There are only three operators:

	Term	Meaning	Example
	OR	Find sites with at least one of the terms present.	Sites containing Cats OR Dogs, OR both will be delivered.
	AND	Find sites with at least one of the terms present.
	AND	Finds sites with both terms present.	Cats AND Dogs will deliver sites with both Cats and Dogs, leaving out Cats-only and Dogs-only sites.
		Finds sites with both terms present.
	NOT	Finds sites with one term but not the other.	Cats NOT Dogs will deliver sites with Cats but no Dogs.
	NOT