That is where I saw it Tony. Eleanor----- Original Message ----- From: "tony sweeney" <tonysweeney1@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:08 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Internet Searching: Was: usb sticks thank you
Hi Eleanor, Couldn't agree more!I took the liberty of forwarding it to another list I'm on wich is in Ireland!More please! Thanks Tony----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:01 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Internet Searching: Was: usb sticks thank youThis was excellent George. Look forward to another lesson from you. Eleanor----- Original Message ----- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:11 PM Subject: [access-uk] Internet Searching: Was: usb sticks thank youNote I've changed the Subject line. "Google is very often your friend.". I could not agree with you morehere, Steve. It is well worth spending time learning about how to use a searchengine 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 blindBut 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. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq-- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1305 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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