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Boolean operators AND / OR / NOT
-AND, To find a smaller set of results.
-OR,To find a larger set of results.
-NOT, To find results that leave out certain words.
Truncation - Shortening of a word to its root and adding an asterisk to find results using all variations of the word.
Phrase searching - Put quotation marks around two or more words to search by phrase instead of by the individual words (for example, "social media").
檢索詞組合實例
autism AND 自閉症
autism OR 自閉症