[access-uk] Re: Internet Searching: Was: usb sticks thank you
- From: "David W Wood" <g3yxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:54:22 -0000
Entertaining as well as being addictive!
David W Wood
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
George Bell
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:11 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Internet Searching: Was: usb sticks thank you
Note I've changed the Subject line.
"Google is very often your friend.". I could not agree with you more
here, Steve.
It is well worth spending time learning about how to use a search
engine like this. So here are some very, very basic tips.
Let's say you are looking for something about Louise Braille - his
birthday perhaps.
If you simply type in say
Louis Braille
You will get around 580,000 hits.
If you type in
Louis Braille +birthday
Note the use of the + sign in front of "birthday" - this means that
your results MUST include that word.
You will end up with about 26,500 hits.
So you look at the first few, and discover that there's a 200th
birthday celebration going on, and so you want to know more. Type in
Louis Braille +Birthday +200
And you are down to about 8,600 hits.
Now lets get really extreme and go for the following:
louis Braille +Birthday +200 -UK -France +USA
Now we've added a minus sign to eliminate any results that have a
reference to the UK and France, but include anything referring to the
USA.
And we're down to 1,230 hits.
Are you getting the general idea?
Now for another trick. One of the items I found above, refers to:
tactile communication system for the blind
But if I type that in, I get 51,100 hits.
BUT, if I enclose it in quotes as follows:
"tactile communication system for the blind"
We are down to just 9 hits, because the search is looking for an exact
match.
I'm no expert at all this searching, but just those few basic tips can
help greatly when you are looking for something in the early hours of
the morning when few others are on the lists.
It also makes searching fun, and indeed can be quite addictive.
George.
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