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Include Boolean operators and special characters

Include Boolean operators and special characters

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Include Boolean operators and special characters

- [Instructor] Let's start with some basics. I know a good many of you watching this course may likely already know these but, as an instructor, I would not be able to sleep well tonight knowing I didn't start here. And I also want to make sure all of us are on the same page and level moving forward for the rest of this course. Besides, so we all know that search engines are so good now that, most of the time, you can find what you want just by putting in your query in your native language into the search bar. You can type an entire question or you can also just put in some words. But sometimes there are just too many similarities between two completely different things and that can clutter up your results. So I can include a minus sign to leave out results if it includes that word prominently. Let's try that one more time. I want to look for a job that has to do with marketing and promotion but not if it's a radio job.…

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