BOOLEAN CHEATSHEET
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Operator |
How It Works |
Example |
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Search for more than one keyword AND (or a space) |
To search for two or more words list each word followed by a space. Putting AND between the words is optional. |
“engineer developer” produces the same results as “engineer AND developer” |
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Search for either word but not both OR |
Use OR to find pages that may have just one of several words in a phrase. OR must be capitalized. |
“java developer” OR “java programmer” |
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Search for an exact phrase “exact phrase” |
Surround a phrase with quotation marks to search for that exact phrase. |
“senior software engineer” |
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Exclude a word -job -jobs |
Put a – (minus sign) before a word to exclude results containing that word. |
-job -jobs excludes jobs from the results |
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Search within a site or domain :site |
Get results only from one site or domain. |
“java developer” site:twitter.com |
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Search within a webpage title or url :intitle :inurl |
Get results that contain a certain word in the page title or the page URL. |
(intitle:resume OR inurl:resume) returns resumes |
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Wildcard – fill in a missing word * |
Use an asterisk as a placeholder for unknown terms or letters. Use * with other words withing quotation marks to find variations of that phrase. Use * within a word to search for that word with different endings. |
“java * programmer” produces results for java programmer/developer and java/j2ee developer. financ* produces results for financial, finance, finances |
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Build complex strings with brackets ( ) |
Use brackets with quotation marks to build complex searches with multiple search strings. |
(“Program Manager” OR “IT Director”) AND (IBM OR Oracle OR “Red Hat” OR Microsoft) |