BOOLEAN SEARCH


Meaning of BOOLEAN SEARCH in English

< information science > (Or "Boolean query") A query using the Boolean operators, AND , OR , and NOT , and parentheses to construct a complex condition from simpler criteria. A typical example is searching for combinatons of keywords on a World-Wide Web search engine .

Examples:

car or automobile

"New York" and not "New York state"

The term is sometimes stretched to include searches using other operators, e.g. "near".

Not to be confused with binary search .

See also: weighted search .

(1999-10-23)

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