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Published on: November 13, 2016

Google Offers Proximity Search

11/13/2016 6:00 pm

Updated: November 13, 2016 Many paid legal research products such as LexisNexis and Westlaw offer the ability to search for keywords within a certain number of words from one another (a number that you define). For example, some pay databases allow you to search w/ (WITHIN any number of words ...

Published on: December 9, 2012

Yahoo! Drops Proximity Connector

12/09/2012 11:07 pm

Yahoo! no longer recognizes the proximity connector NEAR. Yahoo! does still recognize an asterisk as a proximity connector representing the concept of "within one word." To conduct a "within one word" search at Yahoo!, the search would be expressed as follows: "Mark * Rosch" (including the quotation marks). We have ...