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Boolean searching

Posted on November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 by Jamen Mcgranahan

If you are using the ‘and’ term as a boolean, it needs to be typed with all caps. Here is an example:

sahagun AND historia general AND banamex

whereas this search does NOT generate the same results:

sahagun and historia general and banamex

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