How to specify an acronym, such as ADD (for Attention Deficit
Disorder) without getting the word "add" included in results?

Revrickm --

I recently ran into the same problem while doing research on Dell
Corporation: a search for "Dell" turned up every page in Italian
because of the common use of the word in that language.

Acronym searches are often best done with the full term:
ADD + "Attention Deficit Disorder"

Any serious pages will have both terms, though you might miss some
minor references, particularly in newsgroups or bulletin boards.

Other strategies are going to be similar:
ADD + children
ADD + ADHD
ADD + symptoms

Or you can put a string of words together than would specifically
exclude "add" in the addition sense:
"symptoms of ADD"
"diagnosing ADD"

And, as Google will ignore punctuation, here's another strategy:
"ADD & ADHD"

I hope this gives you some ways to focus the search.  There are
thousands of links in each of these examples.  But if this answer
isn't clear, please request a clarification before rating it.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

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Request for Answer Clarification by revrickm2-ga on 06 Feb 2004 11:43 PST

Thanks -- very helpful.  Is there no provision in Google for making a
case-sensitive search?

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Clarification of Answer by omnivorous-ga on 06 Feb 2004 11:56 PST

Revrickm --

No there's no case sensitivity to Google's search:
"Google searches are NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of
how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For example,
searches for "george washington", "George Washington", and "gEoRgE
wAsHiNgToN" will all return the same results."

From the Basics of Google Search page:
://www.google.com/help/basics.html

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Excellent response, researcher knew exactly what I wanted and gave me
more than I asked for!

AltaVista allows for case-sensitve searching - I head over there when
I need such a thing.

Very helpful again -- good to know about AltaVista having a
case-sensitive search.  Thank you, Omnivorous!