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Terms and Connectors (Boolean) Searching Tutorial

Advanced search techniques

Video controls and playback

When you begin a video and hover your cursor over the video window, you are offered several options:

Closed captioning
Search (searches the captions, can take you directly to the point in the video where a specific word is mentioned)
Playback speed (faster or slower)
Full screen mode

Total running time for all the videos in this tutorial: 7:28

Terms and Connectors - Introduction
This video will introduce you to terms and connectors searching, also called Boolean searching or advanced searching. For complex legal issues, terms and connectors searching often works much better than natural language searching.