Click Here
for more articles |
|
|
How to use Search Engines effectively |
by:
Asish Jain |
The Internet iswonderful place full of resources that can be really helpful for us.
The best way for finding information is throughvirtual search engine. A search engine exploresresources onInternet and gives results relating to your queries. Search engines allow keyword searches and use crawlers to locate sites or pages that match requests.
However, findinginformation that is relevant for you ischallenge. Everyday more sites come into existence.
A simple query like "web hosting" on Google returns onefive,onezerozero,zerozerozero results. Now how doesuser know which site is useful for them, thus creating"Information Overload" of sorts. How isuser assured ofquality ofinformation?
The thing about search engines is that they generally display allweb pages that contain any or both ofwords contained insearch query.
So comesquestion: how do we findinformation we are looking for?
There are various techniques that you can use to make your search query better which will then help to achieve more relevant results.
For instance if you use"+" operator and restructure your query to "web hosting" + Windows it will show only those sites that offer Windows hosting. You can also use"AND" Boolean operator, depending on what you are comfortable with.
You can use"-" operator and key in "web hosting" - Linux thereby telling Google to make sure that it does not display Linux related hosts. This issame as using"NOT" Boolean operator.
There are also keywords like ADJ, NEAR etc. that are used by some ofsearch engines. The NEAR operator looks for keywords specified inquery within certain proximity of each other i.e. it makes sure that bothkeywords "web" & "hosting" are present onsame page and are placed nearby to each other intext.
The ADJ operator isstricter filter and returns only those pages wherekeywords are next to each other i.e. it will only return pages wherekeywords "web" and "hosting" are mentioned together.
Another technique to make sure you get better results is to usesensible query. Make use of words that you think will be contained onsite you are looking for: "web hosting" is better then "I want web hosting".
Also remember that search engines normally ignore certain words like "a', "for", "of", "in", "at" etc.
Another important thing to remember is that most search engines have'tips' page that specifically contains information on how to make better searches onsearch engine. It is always good to read these tips.
Most search engines haveadvanced search option that is really useful if you are not proficient at using operators while searching.
Searching and finding what you are looking for is easy if you are armed withknow-how of how to do it.
Aboutauthor:
Ashish Jain
Msix.Net
http://www.msix.net
Circulated by Article Emporium
|
|
