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Therefore all the information here will have both terms
AND refines our results by requiring that all results have both Stan Lee OR Stanley Martin Lieber as well as Marvel
Searching with OR increases our results, so searching for Stan Lee OR Stanley Martin Lieber brings us this.
NOT eliminates anything that is tagged X-Men.
This leaves us with only information tagged Stan Lee OR Stanley Martin Lieber AND Marvel but NOT X-Men. Which will better enable us to find the information we need.
This is the information tagged
Stanley Martin Lieber
This is the information tagged Stan Lee
There is a lot of information out in the world. How do you find the information you want?
Suppose we need to find information about Stan Lee's work for Marvel's projects besides X-men.
Let's do a search for
Stan Lee
Boolean operators are ways of refining your search to get the best possible results for your subject.
There are three operators:
OR
AND
NOT
This is the information tagged Marvel
This is the information tagged
Stanley Martin Lieber
Currently we have all of Stan Lee's work with Marvel. We only want the work that does not have to do with X-Men.
So we edit our search again, this time adding the Boolean operator NOT
This is the information tagged Stan Lee
So our search becomes
(Stan Lee OR Stanley Martin Lieber) AND Marvel NOT X-Men
This is the information tagged
Stanley Martin Lieber
This is the information tagged Stan Lee
This overlap is the area that is tagged both
Stan Lee OR Stanley Martin Lieber AND Marvel
This is the information tagged Marvel
Now we want the information on Stan Lee concerning his work with Marvel.
So our search becomes
(Stan Lee OR Stanley Martin Lieber) AND Marvel
This is the area that is tagged both
Stan Lee OR Stanley Martin Lieber AND Marvel
but NOT X-Men