Improve your Internet Searching Skills

Posted by Abdullah Mahmood on January 13, 2010 with No comments

Improve your Internet Searching Skills

Today, millions of people are using the internet technology for one or the other thing. Normally if you ask something to someone to which he doesn’t have any knowledge he would suggest you to use Google. The database of the largest search engine can be typed to know about anything. The results that are available on your screen are probably the first indications of what you will find for what you are looking.

An example of such search engine is the Google. It is large database which consists of several computers that run through large amounts of data to return to the user, to find out what ever they are looking for. The question is how does it know what you are looking for? Well, it doesn’t know that what you have to do.

You must type in words and phrases to give the computer an idea of what you are looking for. This search engine and others like this tries to reach nearest to your requirements. And if you don’t know how to search, the search engines are the best solution to learn, because they are not very specific.

Another way you can use to search the internet is through subject Directories. These are highly specialized and planned dictionaries on a particular topic. These directories are created by the experts in those topics and are a great source of help while searching the internet. In order to find these you just need to type the subject matter you want to know in the search engine followed by the word ‘directories’. For example “Biology web directories can be entered to start your search off.

Another way of searching the internet could be by using Meta-Search Engines. In a Meta-Search Engine, you need to enter the keywords in its search field and it will convey your request to different related search fields and web pages at the same time. They will take the request and will give you the desired outcomes from all the engines and web pages from which it requested the information, as according to your keywords.

The data base web pages are not owned by the meta-search engines but they send the request to the databases owned by other search engine companies. These search engine companies then compute the whole process. All of these resources can be used while searching the internet to reach to the desired results. Search the internet at your own risk and maintain your user beware mentality when doing so.
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