Advanced quotation experience in google search?

I've checked


http://www.google.com/help/basics.html
a and
http://www.googleguide.com/category/quer...


but didn"t help

Group #1:
"I want" OR "I need" OR "please"

Group #2:
"music" OR "songs"

Group #3:
"2 cities" OR "two cities" OR "2cities"

My Q. is:
How to search to make google.com take,
at least one quotation from Group#1 + at least one quotation from Group#2 + at least one quotation from Group#3

thanks in advance

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I think that this is the search you're looking for:

("I want" OR "I need" OR +please) (+music OR +songs) ("2 cities" OR "two cities" OR +2cities)

I removed the quotation marks from the individual words, since quotation marks are needed only for phrases of two or more words.  I put a plus (+) sign in front of each individual word, so that Google would return results that contain those exact words rather than synonyms.  (If you'd prefer to retrieve documents that include synonyms, you can remove the plus signs.)

Here's a link to the search results.

[Note: As I was drafting my answer, OrenB posted his answer.  OrenB's idea will work too.  You might use my suggestion if you want to perform just one search, or if you want to force Google to find exact words (by using the plus signs).]

Posted 2007-11-15T08:11:37Z
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Do the search for group 1, scroll to the bottom of the results page and click the link "search within results", search for group 2 within the results of group 1, and repeat this for group 3.

Posted 2007-11-15T08:08:09Z
 
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yeddascott's answer and my answer are actually the same (you can try and see that both ways give you the same search results). yeddascott's way is faster, mine is easier to commit to memory (in my opinion, at least).

Posted 2007-11-15T08:21:46Z

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