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(You must leave a single space between the first complete
keyword +zappa and the next +mothers, but there is no gap
between the + sign and the keyword.)
This search will give you pages from Zappa’s time with the
Mothers of Invention. It may produce references to Zappa and
mothers of children, but you can iron out that wrinkle in a minute
when you have learned multiplication.
If you want to find documents that refer to Zappa, the Mothers
of Invention and Ian Underwood, you could try:
+zappa +mothers +underwood
As mentioned above, using the – symbol, you can exclude
references. So to continue with the Frank Zappa example, you
could look for Zappa and Underwood collaborating outside the
Mothers of Invention by asking for:
+zappa +underwood –mothers
To look for Ian Underwood activity away from Frank Zappa and
the Mothers of Invention, you could try:
+underwood –zappa –mothers
Now we can consider the multiplication of some terms. If you
wanted to ensure that you received only references to the
Mothers of Invention and not the maternal breed in general, you
could multiply the words Mothers of Invention together to ensure
that only words occurring together, in that order, would be picked
up by the search. This is done by quotation marks.
So a more targeted initial search would be:
+zappa +“mothers of invention”
Better still would have been ‘Frank Zappa’, if, on this occasion, you
did not also want material about his son, Dweezil, or any other
Zappa who might have a link with the band.
This raises a crucially important point. It’s easy to get carried
away with such power searching. It can take on a life of its own.
However, to serve its purpose, i.e. to inform your research and