A search for data that meets several criteria by using the Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT (see Boolean logic). For example, the request: "Search for all Spanish and French speaking employees ...

This is why it’s important to understand and master these search operators. Why It’s Called Boolean. Boolean refers to George Boole, a 19th-century mathematician who invented Boolean logic.

Recruiters use boolean searches to find candidates with the right titles and skills. Atuahene shared a real example a recruiter on his team used to search for a software engineer on LinkedIn: ...

Dealing with those Boolean queries may look intimidating at first if you aren’t familiar with programming. But the good news is that first of all, not everyone needs Boolean: If you’re monitoring ...

Google has quietly removed the Boolean + operator from its search options–and replaced it with expanded quotation mark functionality. For those who don’t use Boolean search operators, this isn ...

Search Gizmos. First, let me introduce you to Tara Calishain, aka ResearchBuzz on Twitter. She has been creating what she calls “search gizmos” for quite a few years, well, since 1996 or so.