Exact phrase: combining words using quotation marks
Sometimes, you may want to use an exact combination of words (exact phrase). .
You can put combinations of words or indeed whole sentences in quotes. Such a combination will then occur exactly as quoted in the documents found. This is very useful if you are searching for a name or a compound.
N.B.! It is possible to miss articles on your subject when doing this. For example, when using the exact phrase
“child care Amsterdam”
you might not retrieve articles mentioning
“child care in the suburbs of Amsterdam”.
Use
to retrieve these articles.“child care” AND Amsterdam
You can also indicate that search terms need to occur within close proximity to each other. See Nice to Know: Proximity operators..
