First Principles of Business Law

6. Advanced search techniques

6.4. More examples of Boolean searching

Look at the three diagrams below. Next to each one are alternative search terms. In a Boolean search, which one of the listed terms would find documents in the areas of the diagram coloured blue, but not the documents in the areas that are left white. Click on the search terms for feedback.

	1 (a) Jones or Smith 1 (b) Jones and not Smith 1 (c) Jones and Smith
	2 (a) Jones or Smith 2 (b) Jones and not Smith 2 (c) Jones and Smith
	3 (a) Jones or Smith 3 (b) Jones and not Smith 3 (c) Jones and Smith