Second White Rose DTC Annual Spring Conference 2013 – The Methods Mix

The White Rose DTC is organising a conference which is open to all postgraduate research students in the social sciences at Leeds, Sheffield and York and is a great opportunity to network with other researchers at all stages and share research interests.

More information can be found under http://wrdtc.ac.uk/events/leeds-spring-conf-2013/

 

Advanced Google feature - the proximity search

Many of us know the Boolean features such as AND or OR to serach more accurately on databases or journals.

However, I was surprised to read that Google had a proximity feature, similar to others that use NEAR(X) or W/X, where X is the number of words between the two search terms.

For Google the proximity search is called AROUND(X) and Phil Bradley has written more about this feature on his blog: http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2011/01/proximity-search-in-google.html