advanced search tech

may help when looking up things (search engines and whatnot)

boolean search

fox

• traditional search algorithm. gives you what you want, or at least tries to.

"fox"

• searches for results that have the exact phrase.

fox +meow
fox AND meow

• searches for results that contain both terms.

fox -meow
fox NOT meow

• EXCLUDES results that contain the targetted term

fox OR cat

• searches results that contain either

(fox OR cat) +floof

• brackets signify precedence, same as math.
• results are processed based off of the rule inside brackets first, then the output is filtered more by the following rules.

search engine specific things

filetype:pdf

• looks for results with this file type

site:lipu.li

• only includes results from the specified website