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Phrase searching

Putting two or more words in "quotation marks" will prompt a search for that exact phrase. This is a useful way to narrow a search as it reduces the number of results returned and makes the results more relevant.

 

Example: a search for animal cloning returned 79, 492 results

 

Example: the same search using quotation marks returned 447 results

Remember to check the help pages on the search tool being used to check that phrase searching is permitted.            

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