How to use a search engine

To carry out an effective research, the following advices may prove useful:

- Rather than consulting all the results suggested by the search engine, it is preferable when research is unfruitful to formulate the request in several forms, by using synonyms and by checking the spelling;

- To use the signs understood by the search engines: in general + in front of a word means that the posted result will have to include the required word and - that it will not have to appear in it;

- To use quotation marks, such as for example in " word group ", which makes it possible to seek groups of words and not isolated words.

- To use Boolean operators, ex: management AND NOT management, management OR management, management NEAR/5 management (the word management appears with less than 5 words of distance from the word management in the pages which will be selected), management ADJ marketing (the two words appear together and in this order in the selected pages), management NOT (accountancy OR marketing) = one seeks the pages with " management " but without the pages which deals with accountancy or marketing.

- To use the online help (the search engines do not function all in the same way) and to test the advanced research options if necessary.

For more information, consult the websites dedicated to advices in the search of information.