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]>
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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-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sheila Ashcraft
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:45 PM
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> 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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