For her paper on Internet surveillance in the workplace, Anna Orlov had difficulty restricting the number of hits. When she typed the words internet, surveillance, workplace, and privacy into a search engine, she got more than 80,000 matches. To narrow her search, Orlov tried typing in the phrases “internet surveillance”, employee, and “workplace privacy”. The result was 422 matches, still too many, so Orlov clicked on Advanced Search and restricted her search to sites with URLs ending in .org and to those updated only in the last three months.
Results screen from sample advanced Web search