Boolean search

"It's not what one puts in, it's what one leaves out" (Davies, Esmonde & Larbey, 1975)

Or in the case of searching the web, using Boolean logic to exclude unwanted hits on the search.

Biggest number of 'hits' for Australian photography using the Boolean logic between the words as such, Australian 'or' photography returned over 9 million hits.



Using Boolean logic to narrow the search to find information most relevant to my search. For this I added a word (Australian landscape) AND (photography or photos) and



Information coming only from university sources.
Answer: not sure—I tried a number of sources, Google, Dogpile, Yahoo Directory and searched databases like ERIC and WorldCat.

The best result I had was using Google Scholar and using the advance search function only searching in publication published in universities. WorldCat was also successful but only returned book searches.


Davies, J. ( Producer), Esmonde, J & Larbey, B. (Writers). (1975). The Good Life [Television Series]. United Kingdom, BBC