If you are just getting your feet wet with Boolean Strings search, there’s one easy way to get into deeper searching but keep a bit of the syntax (the site: operator) hidden, and move on when you feel more comfortable. I am talking about Google’s
You will still have to remember to use minus (-) as “NOT”, capitalize OR and don’t have to care about AND.
This link gives you access to using the most powerful Boolean operator: site: (or X-ray in recruiter speak) without actually typing it into the string.
Add a site to be searched to the “Custom Search on the fly” and you can search, for example:
- LinkedIn Profiles in the UK
- Resumes on Craigslist in NYC
- Spoke.com Directory
- Boolean Strings Network
- This Blog
…and many more places.
Boolean syntax is not hard but this might be a gentle first step into learning it.