Keywords

In chapter 3 “Database searching with keywords and hierarchies” Badke helps to inform on how to carry out a more precise and accurate search using keywords. His analogy of the “keyword” to “friends you trust only to a certain point” was quite clever and I immediately understood what he was trying to convey. Which is that “keywords” can be extremely helpful, but only to an extent and only if there used the correct way. As obvious as it now sounds, it never occurred to me to do a “OR” search during my research, I would just do twice the work and search separately. I have used the “AND” way of search, but this often lead me to not enough results and sometimes none, which only lead me to become frustrated. Badke pointed out that I was probably using to many words during my “AND” search and that it’s best to limit the words used, otherwise your eliminating possible matches.