Hi there,
Is there a way/tool/ search engine that would allow me to search for multiple variations of the same phrase at the same time?
For example, I want to search for "revealing his true belief". But I also want to search for all the phrases that have the same or similar meaning like"betraying their real opinion".
The total number of words here is 8 but there are many different ways to combine the words so there are many different potential alternative phrases: "revealing his true opinion" "revealing his real opinion" "betraying our real opinion" etc….
Is there a way to accomplish this in two conditions?
1- I determine the alternatives. So I specify that for "word 1 word 2 word 3 word4", the alternatives for word 1 are: Only revealing or showing.
2- Use all the possible synonyms or even antonyms for "revealing" in word 1.
A very useful tip I got is the use of asterisk so "revealing * true opinion" would yield "revealing your true opinion" and "revealing their true opinion".
But for some reason when I combine two quotations with each other with OR, some results are omitted. For example, "revealing * true opinion" OR "betraying * * real" yields results for the latter quotation but not the former even though the former would generate results if it's on its own.
Regards,
Hashem
Try AND" in place of "OR".
"AND" insists that your search must contain all terms. It gives you less results.
You are asking for only one term to be satisfied in the search by using "OR". It gives you more results. Think of the Venn diagram of 2 overlapping circles.
Search engines do differ. This works on Google Scholar:
(reveal OR betray) AND ("true opinion" OR "real belief")
Click to see a lovely reading list --
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?&q=%28reveal+OR+betray%29+AND+%28%22true+opinion%22+OR+%22real+belief%22%29
Why don't you use a symbolic tool in order to create by yourself all possible and desired combinations? I think it is safer.
Hi
I think the answer of your question is in this link:
http://time.com/4116259/google-search-2/
Hope to be useful.
For the issue of "OR" not working, Clemens from Trufflepiggy helped me out by creating a muli-line search feature https://trufflepiggy.com/labs/multiline/find
Thesaurus.com would be a good partner/resource if something like this would be developed from scratch.
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