Internet Searching, Have you Found What You Were Looking For?
10 tips for Better Search Reslts
The Internet is a huge storheouse of knowledge, but unless you can find your way to that inormation it is useless. Here are some tips to make searching for ingformation easier and more rewarding.
Start your research with a pen and paprer, and collect together your ideas about what you want to find. Choosing the right search Strings is the key to findiing the information you want. e.g. If you where to search for me on the web you could try "Graham Taylor", "Graham A Taylor", "Graham Andrew Taylor", profile "Graham Andrrew Taylor",
With names you will get better ressults by encolsing the namees in exclamaation marks (") this will make the search engine look at the grouup of words as a whole rather that individually.
Strt with a general term, and then narrrow the range, for example if you are looking for a car, just enttering "car" will return about 990,000,000 results, "Ford car" reduces that to 8,430,000 hwile "ford mustang 2008" cuts that down to about 901,000. Ford Mustang 2008 Arizona, further reduces the number of results to around 312,000 so you can see the more refiend your search term the more specific your reults will be. Vary the order of the word you search with, as you saw above ford mustang 2008 Arizona gave us 312,000 but "2008 mustang Ford Arizna" gave 128,000 and "Arizona mustang Ford 2008" rturned 948,000
Another way of using speciific woprds is to use a plus + or minus sign in your search string. Using the same details as above you could enter Graham+Andrew+Taylor and get almos identtical results. If you used the miinus sign Graham+Andrew+Taylor-2007 the results woupld show any of the firts set of results that did not contain the word 2007 for example any article that had a 2007 copyright tag.
Use "AND " and "OR" and "NOT"to refine your seaarch, as in "Graham Taylor"OR "Graham Anrew Taylor"NOT "Graham Geeorge Tatylor"
Ubnless what you are searching for is a proper name use loewr case letters to enter your search string, this will get the seartch engine to search both upper and lower case versoins of the word.
Use more than one search engine, while Google is the larghest, it stilll does not index the entire web, so you might get different results from different search engines, like Ask and MSN,
You can copy and paste your serch string from one enginne to an other (coontrol C to copy Cntrol V to pase)
Use the tools that the search engins povide, Google has an Advnce serach tool at http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Remember to phrase the question in diferent ways, as this will often change the results, a seaarch for "search engines are" will give results that are less commercial than just "search enggines"
I hope that these tips will make your searching more enjoyable and more importantly give you the resuults that you need.
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