Phrase search

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Phrase Search is a type of search that allows users to search for documents containing an exact sentence or phrase opposed to being limited to keywords[1] More recently, phrase search is one of the more important terms associated with optimizing the textual content of web pages in such a way that it is likely to be found by someone searching for a certain string of text and further information based upon that search. Phrase Search is also a common among search engine terminology. The term refers to a specific search syntax[2] which involves using quotation marks (") around a specific phrase to indicate that you want to search for instances of that search query in the order you specified.

  1. ^ http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/phrase_search.html
  2. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search


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