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  2. In computer science, phrase searching allows users to retrieve content from information systems (such as documents from file storage systems, records from databases, and web pages on the internet) that contains a specific order and combination of words defined by the user.

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  4. Aug 4, 2023 · Phrase searching is a search technique designed to limit search results to records in which the desired phrase occurs. Phrase searching tells the database to focus solely on retrieving records where your terms appear together as a phrase, excluding all individual occurrences of the separate words.

  5. Sep 17, 2024 · Phrase searching allows users to search for articles containing a phrase rather than containing a set of keywords in random order. For most databases the phrase needs to placed in double quotation marks; e.g. "skin cancer".

    • Michaela Venn
    • 2018
  6. Aug 12, 2024 · Phrase searching narrows your search results by allowing you to define precisely how you want the words to appear. For example, if you are searching for information on job satisfaction then you are probably looking for those two words to appear right next to each other, with no other words in between, in the text of the document.

  7. Mar 20, 2024 · What is phrase searching? Phrase searching is a very effective way of narrowing your search to documents on your topic. By putting quotation marks around two or more words, you force the database or search engine to find your words together in the document instead of separately.

    • Katherine Miller
    • 2017
  8. Sep 5, 2024 · Phrase searching is a technique that allows you to search for two or more words as an exact phrase. In most databases, this is accomplished by enclosing the search terms in double quotation marks (e.g. “affirmative action”).

  9. Aug 21, 2024 · Phrase searching narrows the potential retrieved result to a smaller set of relevant works. It also searches for and retrieves the individual concepts in the search phrase. Searching: Academic Search Complete

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