- by Jim Edwards

(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
    http://www.thenetreporter.com
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Nothing creates a more frustrating online experience than pulling up
your favorite search engine to find something simple and coming away
empty handed after an hour of searching.

Search engines - those sites that allegedly help you find what you
want online - can cause no end of grief if you don’t know some
simple tricks that will vastly improve your search results.

Suppose you wanted to find information regarding 1954 Ford truck
parts. Most people would search this subject by going to their
favorite search engine and typing in 1954 Ford truck parts. The
search engine would hopefully return results for sites that matched
those keywords.

However, search engines usually also return results including sites
containing only some of the words in your search. So in this example
you would also get sites not only about 1954 Ford truck parts, but
on 1954 Fords, Ford trucks, truck parts, and trucks.

Virtually everyone knows the frustration of typing keywords (the
topic of your search) into a search engine, clicking the search
button, and then facing the prospect of sorting through a million
pages (literally) to find what you want.

For everyone experiencing search engine frustration, these
suggestions should quickly improve your results.

Tip #1 - To aid you in searching more efficiently, most search
engines allow surfers to perform "Boolean" searches.

This feature narrows the results to only those websites containing
all the words specified, but not necessarily in the exact order.

Those searching for 1954 Ford truck parts would enter 1954 AND Ford
AND truck AND parts into the search box to find sites containing all
of those words.

Tip #2 - Using quotation marks around keyword sets yields even more
specific results.

"1954 Ford truck parts" should produce only those websites
containing this exact phrase somewhere in the website.

Tip #3 - The more specific you get right up front, the better.

If you want to look for antique car parts for your 1954 Ford truck,
start your search with "1954 Ford truck parts" and work from there.

Don’t start with "1954 Ford" because you’ll probably just waste time
sorting through everything from cars to magazines to collector
clubs.

It would also help if you searched by the model and any other
specific information.

If refining your searches doesn’t get you where you want to go,
several programs exist to help you search more quickly and
effectively.

Copernic (www.copernic.com) examines multiple search engines then
compares each engine’s results against the rest to determine the
best sites.

The program then ranks the resulting sites and displays them for the
user. Copernic’s free version allows users unlimited searches for
websites.

Web Ferret (www.ferretsoft.com) also offers a free program that
queries multiple search engines and displays the ranked results in
the user’s web browser for easy surfing.

With the addition of millions of web pages every week, continuously
honing your search skills represents one of the smartest investments
of time and energy any serious web surfer can make.

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Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-author of
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