If you have any experience with social media monitoring platforms, you know that getting precise results may be tricky at times: Apps can show a lot of noise for brands with common names or, quite the ...

Reader Paul writes in with a handy Craigslist searching tip: Contrary to popular belief, Craigslist does have an Boolean "OR" search method; it can be done by placing ...

A little bit of computer science has made it possible to reduce the time it takes to find new genes from years to milliseconds. Researchers at Stanford University have developed a simple processing ...

A search that involves the use of Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT, which refine the scope of the search by including or excluding documents. AND and NOT narrow the search, while the OR operator ...

Several centuries ago, during the Merovingian period I think, I taught whole courses on online searching. Those skills are still important, and I’m still teaching them in different guises and ...

DevonTechnologies on Thursday released DevonAgent 1.6, an upgrade to its Internet research tool that adds new plug-ins for searching TidBITS, MacUpdate.com and Version Tracker, as well as a new ...

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