Document (#7160)

Author

Jascó, P.

Title

Don't kiss Boolean goodbye : it's AND not OR, let alone XOR

Source

Information today. 11(1994) no.2, S.22-24

Year

1994

Abstract

Gently criticizes the recent trend away from Boolean searching and towards natural language searching in online systems

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