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Article: Finding what you need: using internet search engines.
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- Leadership
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Discouraged when you get two million results to an Internet search query? Learn how to take your search skills up a notch!
Essential to finding what you need on the Internet is knowing how and where to look.
Many people searching for information on the Web assume that simply typing in a key word or two and clicking OK will "automagically" produce useful results. But this method does not optimize the results of your search, either producing too many (potentially many thousands) or too few relevant links.
This article will outline search techniques, reveal how some major Web sites will react to those techniques, and finally deliver some tricks ...