phrase needed

[Katherine Furlong]

Another good web page on Boolean concepts (complete with Venn Diagrams, ohh,
ahh)
is Laurie Cohen's for the University at Albany's libraries:

http://www.albany.edu/library/internet/boolean.html

It's long, but I like it because it includes not only how Boolean searching
is *supposed* to work, but how it *actually* works in some of the major WWW
Search Engines... <nice segue into the other current thread...>

>These are normally called "compound" search statements, I believe.
>
>A good Web page covering the concepts is:
>
>  http://www.lib.ua.edu/boolean.htm
>
>Bill Feidt
>NAL
>wfeidt at nal.usda.gov
>
>At 06:11 AM 11/7/97 -0800, Donald Barclay wrote:
>>I've heard such searches called "nested searches," but this may not be the
>>universally accepted term. Could there be a term from algebra that
>>describes such searches?
>
>

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