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Bill,
Your suggestions are very good. I think Google has dropped the 10-term
limit on the number of search terms , and those within quotes can now be
quite long. Placing a + sign immediately before a term (with no space is
supposed to guarantee that that term will appear in whatever Google comes up
with.
A tilde ~ immediately before a term allows Google to look for a synonym in
addition to the term itself.
For more such information, visit
http://www.GoogleGuide.com
--Nelson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sun Sounds of Arizona" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Search engine question
> My Braille PC World just had a very good article on this topic. You can
> probably red it on their web site. In short, they suggest two options.
> One
> is to use the "advanced search" rather than the simple search. This
> provides several more boxes which refine the search. A method I like
> better
> though is to use command line parameters in the simple search. You can
> use
> up to ten search terms. If you put the word "or" between two words, the
> search will find every page where one of them is used, but not combine
> them.
> If you put quotes around a word or phrase, the search will be specific to
> that exact phrase. If you type a minus sign before a word, the search
> will
> exclude those words from the search. There is more than this primer,
> check
> out the article.
>
> Bill
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sheila Ashcraft
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:45 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [VICUG-L] Search engine question
>
> Hello all,
> I'm finding using Google is not as efficient as it once was. Linking to
> pages such as "Jump" just provides more lists of topics unrelated to my
> search.
>
> I've also tried www.dogpile.com, but fouind most of the entries are from
> Google.
>
> Does anyone use a general topic search engine you really like and provides
> good leads to specific search terms?
>
> Sheila
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