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The Internet is like the KING of all Libraries. Among the

stacks you seek. Among the librarians search engines and

directories you perform a query. But if you don t know the

language, the search criteria, or your way around, you can

get lost playing endless hours of hide & seek.

In order for you to locate the information or site you're

seeking, several things must have happened

the site owner must register or submit their site with the

directory in which you are doing a search. Then a real

person goes and checks out their site and decides if the site

is worthy of getting listed in their directory.

The site owner must register or submit their site with the

search engine in which you are doing a search OR the

search engine s robots or spiders must have crawled

through their websites which will rank them by many

different factors. The most important factor is the use and

weight of the site owner s use of keywords.

When you do a search or a query, you type in a word or

phrase of words, right here is where you might not find

what you are looking for because the site owner or

webmaster didn t put in the keywords you are typing in the

search window.

Therefore, the site owner or webmaster must determine

what keywords are important for each page on their website

and what word s you will type in a search window to find

their site. The words you type in might not be the

webmasters keywords, so you don't find what you are

looking for.

To make matters worse, each search engine and directory

can have their own search criteria; however, most are very

similar.

Using particular search strategies can help narrow your

search and hopefully find the stuff more relevant to what you

are seeking.

Seven Searching Techniques to try:

Read the help section of the search engine or directory

Put worsens quotation marks; tells most search engines

youre looking for that exact term

Type in lowercase letters many search engines are

case sensitive

Be specific instead of typing in organizers, type in professional

organizers

Type in the plural form of the word

Type in the word misspelled, such as organizers or

organisers or organizers

Type in a longer variation of the word, instead of

organize, type in organizing.

Anthony Muller, President of Web Merck, said in his article,

How to Avoid the Most Common Myths and Blunders of Search Engine

Optimization

There are hundreds of search engines, but only 20 30 main

ones, and just four-five of them account for 60 75 of the

total search engine traffic. For example, AltaVista gets about

17 of the total engine market and it equals roughly 40

million searches a day; as opposed to Lycos or Hotbox which

each get 2 3 of the market. It would shock you to know

Yahoo only gets about 24

My two favorite search engines to locate what I'm looking for

is dogpile.com and alltheweb.com

dogpile.com allows you to search through 14 search engines

at the same time Type in your word s , click on FETCH,

and WaLA You ve just worked a little smarter, not harder.

At dogpile.com you can choose to search through images,

audio, auctions, news, FTP, Discussion, and Small Biz.

At dogpile you can use advanced searching techniques, by

using additional syntax, that will help * you gain added

control over your search and weed out any unwanted

results. *

Additional Syntax for Searching Techniques:

Type AND between words or the symbol before a word

thus allowing a specific combination of words to be present

in all search results.

Example: Home AND Clutter or Home Clutter will result in

different search results.

Type NOT between words or the symbol - before a word

Example: Dogs NOT Cats or Dogs - Cats will result in sites

when only dogs appear but not cats.

ype OR to include both words.

Example: Office OR Clutter

Not all search engines support these syntaxes in dogpile;

therefore, dogpile will only search the engines that support

the syntax you use, allowing a more tailored result.

alltheweb.com searches for documents on the Internet that

contain your search word s . They offer a pull down menu to

the left of the search window where you can choose from

different syntaxes. They also offer an advanced search

where you can perform word filters, word s that should be

included or excluded from your search.

by: sunder

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