Always a phrase or two about the pointlessness of the assignment in relation to the use of time and to things he might otherwise be doing: e.g.

NEWYORKER: The Tree Line, Kansas, 1934

But for the average person using web search engines, there's a really easy one that a lot of people still don't do, although the search engines have made their technologies smarter, and that's using quotations marks around two or more key words that you want to search as a phrase.

NPR: Tips for Easing Internet Information Overload