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Phrase Searching

You can group words together to make certain that they aer searched for as a phrase by placing them within quotation marks. Some search engines allow you to create phrases by placing punctuation between the phrase's words or including them inside parentheses.
adult:continuing:education or 
(adult continuing education).

When you are searching, think of a phrase that describes your topic, such as "adult continuing education". Using this phrase will ensure that your results include the words together, instead of returning a document that contains all three words, but with no relationship to one another.

Fuzzy logic

Fuzzy logic technically refers to logic that is not categorically true or false. A common example is whether a day is sunny (i.e., is 50% cloud cover a sunny day?). In search, fuzzy logic is often used for misspellings