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How information is structured and made available in the real world

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Narrowing the field

The term 'AND' in a search retrieves only documents that have all of your search terms. For example, if you search for

Children AND Teacher

You will find only documents that contain both words. The shaded area in Figure 2 shows the documents retrieved using this search term.

Figure 2: Set containing Children AND Teacher

Figure 2: Set containing Children AND Teacher
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