Waffle Bytes

The last couple days I've shared the general way to think about Google files and searching ,  and about the Advanced search bar hidden at the top of Google Drive.  Today let's talk about Boolean operators. Boolean operators are something that can help you narrow your search.  A Boolean searching " is built on a method of symbolic logic developed by George Boole." OR is the most common Boolean.  In fact, you use it every time you do a search with multiple words!  When you type in two words in the search bar, by default it is finding every file that has either one of those terms.  The number of results returned to you can be overwhelming when using OR (either on purpose, or by default if you use several words in your search), so knowing additional Boolean operators can be keep to finding exactly what you want. Let's look at a search so we can compare how these work.  Here's my general search in my drive for the terms blended learning: ...