A short and easy search engine tutorial

Welcome to our free search engine tutorial, a short and easy guide to Web searching, search engines and directories. This little crash course will teach you how to explore the Net more efficiently.

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By Per and Susanne Koch

There are millions and millions of webpages out there. However, as most of us have troubles finding an old letter on our own computer, how can we find relevant information on this "global hard drive"? After all, this is the closest thing we get to a World Wide Anarchy.

Well, there are people out there trying to catalogue the Web for us. Furthermore, virtual robots are scurrying around, trying to map the vast expanses of Cyberspace. Although most of them can cover only a small part of the Net, the task of finding anything among some two billion pages is still daunting.

However, the main problem is not that the search engines and the search directories find too little, but that they find too much. It is hard to uncover the needle in a list of 400,000 hits. That's why Pandia brings you this short and easy search engine tutorial. To get the right answer, you must ask the right question. This Web search tutorial will tell you exactly how to do that!

It will take you approximately 30 minutes to read the search engine tutorial through, and you will learn the essentials of Web searching in less than an hour. By improving your searching skills you will be able to find what you are looking for faster and more efficiently. How is that for an investment?

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Search Engine Tutorial Index

• Introduction to the search engine tutorial
• What is the Internet anyway?
• What kind of search services should you use?
  • Internet directories
  • Search Engines
  • Metasearch Engines
  • Search utilities
  • The best search engines and directories
• Advanced Internet Searching - as easy as ordering pizza
• Boolean Operators: AND, AND NOT, OR
• "Phrases"
• Proximity: the NEAR-operator
• Case Sensitivity
• Nesting (Brackets)
• Truncation or wildcards
• Search Engine Maths; the easier way
• Field searching
• Error codes
  
• Menu based searching
• Pandia's 17 Recommendations for Internet Searching

The Goalgetter Web Search Tutorial by Pandia Search Engine Training and Education 1999 - 2006. This guide to searching the Web can be found at http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/.