This report discusses search operators that can help optimize online research. It introduces five main search operators: quotation marks, which search exact phrases; wildcard searches using *; excluding words using -; defining a term using :; and requiring words using +. Examples of each are provided. The summary explains that search operators allow gathering relevant information instead of unrelated content, and make researching topics more accurate and efficient. While search operators took some getting used to, they are useful for finding correct information on specific topics.