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Search Mastery

Learn more about how search engines work and how to navigate search pages, tailor searches and search terms, and evaluate the information you find.

Search operators [""] and [OR]

Another way to narrow your search—one you may be familiar with—is by using double quotation marks to search for an exact phrase. 

Sometimes, you may also want to expand your search by searching for multiple possible phrases. The video below introduces using both double quotation marks and the [OR] operator.