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When you start searching with a search engine or in a database, you often just type in some words. For simple questions, you will usually find the answer you are looking for that way. However, this is often not enough.
Use the extra features that search engines and databases offer you and you will get a much better result.
Because a search engine or database does not understand "ordinary human language," you have to adapt the search query.
You will learn in this module a number of techniques you can use to do this.