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How To Search Accurately With A Search Engine

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Many people want access to information that is no doubt available on the internet. The problem is finding it! They either go for small search engines with a small database, or perform an inaccurate or too general search with a large engine.



So the first tip is to make sure you use a search engine with a large database - therefore, use something like google or altavista. If you have a specific 'natural language' question, try Askjeeves (ask.co.uk). Here you can actually ask questions like "where can I buy rollerblades?"



For more accurate searching, put queries in "s, with a '+' sign between the words. Therefore if you are searching for a musician called Peter Tomson, instead of just typing that name, which will bring up lots of people of that name, try +"music"+"peter tomson" and the name of a song or album of his - or something else that is relevant, if you know it.


By: Thomas Powell on Sun, Jun 16th 2002

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