HOW
TO SEARCH THE WEB FOR ANSWER OR INFORMATION EFFECTIVELY
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Prior to the inception of the internet
people of all works of life had found it difficult
to look for information, so many
obstacles has impede their venture but now the world
has change internet is taking the
centre stage of globalization and it’s doing it greatly.
And ever since the internet came people
have looking for ways to tap into it’s vast
resources that is why I decided
go put together an effective guide on how to search for information online.
WHAT IS A SEARCH ENGINE
A search engine is a software robot
that crawl through hundreds of millions of website pages for information using
the computer network.
Or
A computer program that gather documents
or files or data from a computer network or data base.
Have you been wondering how to search
for information without having to go through hundreds of pages online? In this
book I have explained how to search the web efficiently for answers and information
and discuss the problems that people normally face when trying to look for
information online.
Since the phenomenal inception of the
internet and the discovery of its various capabilities many people have venture
into tapping it’s great and almost unlimited resources—looking for information
and answers to questions. These of course has proven difficult to many,
resultantly leaving them frustrated or getting them to stop searching for
information or answers online.
In this book I described many ways to
make renown search engine (such as Google, Yahoo, Answers, Bing, Ask and so on)
to find you information (or answers to your questions).
Now how to search effective begins from
here:
USING QUOTES
Using quotes around questions or terms
make search engines to bring search result of words in that order in which they
are typed or phrased. This also tells the search engine that you want the words
right next to each other.
Now, Let say you are looking for
information on how to make money online.
Write this on the search engine: “How to make money
online”
Compare this phrase online with: How to make money
online
Also check for the number of website in
which this information can be found. You’ll discover that the number of website
displaying the information with a quote wrapped around it will be less than
that without quote. Note that this does note mean that the one without the
quote has more answers, it means that it opens unnecessary sites. Wrapping
quotes around your questions, phrase or terms when searching filters
unnecessary site form the search engines an automatically increase to a very
high degree the tendency to find information you are looking for online. To
effectively search the net for answers using quote brings to you what you want.
USING MINUS
Using negative sign before a word(s)
automatically tells the search engine you do not want the word to be included
in the search results. For example: you are looking for information about
somebody let say a scientist whose first name you know, for instance albert but
whose last name you do not. But some how you know it couldn’t be Gary.
Note: Albert –
Gary
This tells the search engine to
eliminate Gary from the search result
KEY WORDS
Be conscious of the words you use. Use
important words in other to filter out unnecessary search result, for instance
you are looking for information on “online marketing”.
Write this on the search engine: online
marketing
Don’t do these:
How can I get information on online marketing.
SPECIFYING SITES TO CONDUCT SEARCH ON
You can specify site you want to search
for information. For instance You can specify site like yahoo by writing
site:Yahoo.com. for sites pertaining education you can specify by writing
site:.edu. This search will the search engine to conduct search inside the
specified site or website. Example: let say you are looking for top stories
from BBC.
Write this on the search engine: “Top stories” site:bbc.com
You can also exclude site you don’t
want the search engine to search from your query by writing in the site address
minus sign right in front of it.
Write this on the search engine:
Education for all- site:nsukonline.com
GUESSING
You can guess URL (Uniform Resource
Locator) or a web address. The address should not contain space. You may want
information patterning online marketing you could just guess by:
Write this on the search engine: Online
Marketing.com on the address bar.
You should put it at the back of your
mind that guesses only works sometimes.
WHAT “WHAT IS”QUESTIONS WILL GIVE YOU
If you are searching for answers using
“What is” it could prove efficient.
Write this on the search engine: what
is a internet
The possible places you could find
answers are:
·
Wikipedia
·
YahooAnwers
·
Forums of discussion
from various websites
·
Or an online
encyclopaedia or dictionary
·
Other education or
article base site
Using “what is” will give you direct
answers t a question on net if that information is available.
2. Using “Define” also could prove
effective if you are looking for the definition of let say man
Write this on the search engine: Define
Man
The possible places that could bring up
answers are:
·
Wikipedia
·
Online
encyclopaedia/dictionary
·
An article base
website
·
Educational site
3. Looking for a site you don’t know
the address.
If you are unsure about the address of
a site you want to visit all you need to do is to type in the name of the
company in the search engine or a word or phrase related or peculiar to the
company organisation association and son on
TOP SEARCH ENGINES:
1. GOOGLE
2. BING
3. YAHOO
4. ANSWERS.COM
5. ASK.COM
PROBLEMS PEOPLE FACE WHEN SEARCHING FOR
INFORMATION ONLINE
There are a great number of problem
that people face when trying search for information online.
1.
Indiscriminate use of
irrelevant words
2.
Using other website
search engine those built to search information specific to the site like
searching it’s content, for instance pages for words similar to the one you
typed in the search box.
3.
Wrong spelling: most
people misspell words, as a result finding it difficult in getting answers or
information.
CHAPTER TWO
METTA SEARCH ENGINE
A metta-search engine is a search tool
that sends user requests to several other search engines and or data bases and
aggregates the result into a single list or display them according to their
source.
LIST OF METTA SEARCH ENGINE
Not a true search engine, but a portal
to the most popular search engines. Favitt provides some customisation of it’s
appearance. Provides access to google, bing, Youtube, New Amazon, Wikipedia,
Twitter, Digg and Others.
A specialist metta-search engine for
file extension provides a search across many different file extension list on
the internal.
provides and interface allowing
searches across different types of search engines.
Moster crawler, searches Google, yahoo,
Bing and ask as well as returning search result from sponsors.
Meta search engine that uses Google,
Yahoo and Live Search and is available in wide range of different language.
Searches against its own engine which
sites can be added to by pain inclusion only and range of others.
Searches using Gigablast, Acitheweb,
Altavis, Ask, Aol, Bing, Yahoo and Google.
Uses AskJeves, Lycos, Msn and others
11.
www.dogpile.com
Uses Google, Yahoo, Ask, Jeves, About
look smart, Overtive and find what.
12.
www.dosearch.com
not a true (meta) search engine
13.
www.etools.ch
fast and transparent meta search engine
in swiss quality.
14.
www.excite.com
uses Google, Yahoo and Bing.
15.
www.formgle.com
formgle describe itself as a front end
to other search engine
16.
www.ixquick.com
Uses Aol, Altavista, Excite, fast
search, Goto, Hotbot, infoseek, liveDirectory, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN, Snap,
Webscrawler and Yahoo.
17.
www.kartoo.com
Provides a very unique way of
displaying results, which does make it stand out from the crowd.
18.
www.mamma.com
Searches Yahoo, bing and Ask
uses Infoseek, LookSmart, Lycos,
webcrawler, goto, DirectHit, Google, internet keywords, findwhat. Engine use
may change overtime.
20.
www.ownmine.com
meta search engine that collects search
results from Google, yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves. Also Include a live chat
facility to chatting with other users with similar searches
21.
www.search.com
Uses Snap, DirectHit, yahoo, Lycos,
Inktomi and others.
22.
www.search3.com
seach3 provides results from Google
twitter and bing, presenting them in a separate columns on one page.
23.
www.surfwax.com
provides results from AllTheWeb, yahoo
and MSN
24.
www.tripleme.com
the tripleme search engine fetches
results from MSN, Yahoo.
uses google, yahoo and Bing. Also
allows search across jobs, classified, redEstate and others
Installable software Search Engine
CHAPTER THREE
OTHER SITES
1.
Rapidlibrary.com: this
site has a variety of files uploaded by users around the world it can also give
user ability to search and download files. If you are looking for eBooks this
sites will hope you get some.
2.
4shared.com: You can
fine computer applications, eBooks, mobile applications and host of other files
like videos, music, pictures uploaded by users.
3.
Pdfdatabase.com:
there are mainly eBooks on this site, eBooks in pdf, doc other format can be
found on this site.
4.
Sharemobile.ro:
Mobile applications, games and computer applications, pictures and son on.
5.
Freebookcentre.net
6.
Freebookspot.com
7.
Free-ebboks.com
8.
Manybooks.com
9.
Knowfree.com
10.
Onlinefreeebooks.com
11.
Bookyards.com
12.
Snipfiles.com
YAHOO ANSWERS
Yahoo answers is an important and
effective way to get answers from people directly online. At yahoo answers
questions are posted. Answers are usually given by people around the would.
HOW TO USE YAHOO! ANSWERS
1.
Visit www.yahooanswers.com
2.
Signin using your
yahoomail account and password
3.
Post questions and
get answer or see posted questions from people
4.
See posted questions
from people around the world that are related your own, then check the answers
to the questions.
OTHER TIPS
You know search engine searches pages
of website for words or phrase for sentence similar or exactly like the one you
type in the search box or you ask it to search, for instance you want to
download eBooks, all you need to do is;
Write this on the search engine:
Download eBooks for free Or
eBooks for downloads for free Or
We give eBooks for downloads for
free
Don’t do these: Where do I download
eBooks for free
Analysis: The first group of
sentence will give you the site to download eBooks for free while the second
instance of sentence will probably give you site which shows list of website
that you can download eBooks for free or site that has information about the
free eBooks and perhaps where to download it. Go for the first instance because
it saves you time this of course is the effective way to search for answers online.
