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An Example of Google's Advanced Search

To find recent information about Hillary Clinton in English that didn't mention Iraq, we could do this search:

A basic Google search for Hillary Clinton with no limits brought up 37,000,000 results.  The second advanced search with the special limits still brought up 290,000 results, but we have a much better chance of finding what we're looking for in the first few pages of results.

While we've looked at Google's Advanced Search, note that most other search engines, such as those provided by Yahoo!, Microsoft and others, have advanced search forms as well.

Now that we've looked at how search engines work and ways to improve our search engine searching, let's look at subject directories.  They are the other major search tool you can use to find information on the Internet.

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