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1. If you want to search for an exact phrase, use quotes. For example if you
want [English “Subtitles”], will find the pages contain the word English and
exact phrase “Subtitles”
2. Use “define:” to get a quick definition ex: define: subtitle will give
you a whole host of definitions from different sources with links
3. If you want to search a specific word or article within a website use
“site:” Ex: *site: eenadu.net editorial* this will search you directly
the editorial column of the given site.
4. For Searching MP3 files just go to google.com and in google search bar
type
?intitle : index.of? mp3 – (album which your are going to search type here)
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With Best Regards,
*Venkata Ajay Kumar. G*, *KADAPA*
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searching tips for finding efficient solution to a desire query* *:*
*searching tips in Google search engine :
*
This document will highlight the more advanced features of Google Web
Search. Have in mind though that even very advanced searchers, such as the
members of the search group at Google, use these features less than 5% of
the time. Basic simple search is often enough. As always, we use square
brackets [ ] to denote queries, so
[ to be or not to be ] is an example of a query; [ to be ] or [ not to
be ]are two examples of queries.
*
*
- *Phrase search ("")*
By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling Google to
consider the exact words in that exact order without any change. Google
already uses the order and the fact that the words are together as a very
strong signal and will stray from it only for a good reason, so quotes are
usually unnecessary. By insisting on phrase search you might be missing good
results accidentally.
- For example, a search for [ "Alexander Bell" ] (with quotes) will miss
the pages that refer to Alexander *G.* Bell.
- *Search within a specific website (site:)*
Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a
given website. For example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ] will
return pages about Iraq but only from nytimes.com*.* The simpler queries [
iraq nytimes.com ] or [ iraq New York Times ] will usually be just as
good, though they might return results from other sites that mention the New
York Times.
- You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ iraq
site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ iraq
site:.iq ] will return results only from Iraqi sites.
- *Terms you want to exclude (-)*
Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do
not want pages that contain this word to appear in your results. The minus
sign should appear immediately before the word and should be preceded with a
space.
- For example, in the query [ anti-virus software ], the minus sign is
used as a hyphen and will not be interpreted as an exclusion symbol;
- whereas the query [ anti-virus -software ] will search for the words
'anti-virus' but exclude references to software. You can exclude as many
words as you want by using the *-* sign in front of all of them, for
example [ jaguar -cars -football -os ].
- *Fill in the blanks (*)*
The ***, or wild card, is a little-known feature that can be very
powerful. If you include *** within a query, it tells Google to try to
treat the star as a placeholder for any unknown term(s) and then find the
best matches.
- For example, the search [ Google * ] will give you results about many
of Google's products (go to next page and next page -- we have many
products).
- The query [ Obama voted * on the * bill ] will give you stories about
different votes on different bills. Note that the * operator works only on
whole words, not parts of words.
- *use (+)** instead of (and)
* to search a combination of words for example [dell + Intel) instead of
[dell and lintel]. It gives a combinatorial information about DELL AND
INTEL
Thank You
*B Kartheek, M.C.A. ,
SULLURPETA*
==========================================
I am a daily reader of your news paper.some of the topics like e-nadu
(discussing about computer problems & softwares ) are very interesting.The
following tips are my suggestible tips for the this weeks problem:
*Tips for Searching the Web*
*1. Be Natural *
Type in what you want to know, rather than a list of synonyms. Websites are
written in flowing language, and search engines are being taught to
understand the same.
If you would've asked a fellow human "Is alphabet soup nutritious?". Then
ask the search engine "alphabet soup" AND nutritious rather than alphabet
soup nutrition food health.
*2. Use Rare Words *
The more unusual or uncommon the keywords you use are, the more specific the
results will be. Taking a moment to think of a valid yet uncommon word is a
valuable technique.
alcohol returned 912,620 hits (AltaVista)
vodka fetched 120,740
and it narrows down to 2754 hits when you enter Stolichnaya.
* Note: For a few engines the word order is important, so always enter
the rare word first.
* 3. Most Important Word First
*
From personal experince with Google, I have found putting the word that is
most important to your search in first, gets slightly better results
*4. Exclude Words*
By using a "-".
Say you sought the homepage of Bruce Willis, a plumber in Arkansas.
To avoid all the millions (actually 134,928) of pages dedicated to the film
star, use this: "Bruce Willis" plumber Arkansas -"Die Hard" -movie
-superstar -Demi
*5. Spell It Right
*
Overture allows you to see how many times keywords or phrases have been
searched for.
Here is an example of a hard to spell place name I looked up, Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu 4402 (correct spelling)
Machu Pichu 600
Macchu Picchu 720
A quarter of the people failed!
Also be aware of the differences between English and American spellings,
such as colour & color. In such cases use (colour OR color).
* Note: Google will let you know if a more popular alternative spelling
exists
*6. Recognise Stop Words *
Search engines ignore the most common words, in an effort to speed things
up. Several hundred of these are deemed to be "stop words". The vary from
engine to engine, but always contain words like the of web a to in & is. It
doesn't matter whether they are embedded in a phrase or if they have a +
before them, they will not be included in the search. Usually this doesn't
matter, but it is smart to be aware of the process.
Note: AltaVista and Google will find complete phrases, including stop words,
when the phrase is "within quotes". A phrase without quotes will ignore the
stop words
"searching the web" contains two stop words: the & web. Consequently the
search engine will only look for "searching". If you are aware of this, you
can add a more relevant keyword to narrow your search, like: "people search"
* Note: Google will let you know of any words it has excluded
*7. Reverse Questions *
Search engines look for pieces of text that match your query. Web pages are
more likely to contain answers than questions - so search for the answer.
Phrase your query how you would expect the answer to read - the difference
appears slight, but it makes a huge difference.
"IRS stands for" rather than "What does IRS stand for?"
"man first landed on the moon in" rather than "When did man first land on
the moon?"
"sky is blue because" instead of "Why is the sky blue?"
*8. Dead Link Solutions *
Try shortening the URL to the next subheading. Keep doing so until you get
to the point that works. Then browse from there to see if you can track down
the file that you want.
If http://www.spock.com/jim/life/not_as_we_know_it.html returns an error,
try http://www.spock.com/jim/life/ and if you still get an error, try
http://www.spock.com/jim/ and so on down to the root domain
http://www.spock.com
* Note: Google has most of the web cached. If a link is dead, clicking
on the Cached link will bring up how it looked when it was indexed
* Note: Use The Wayback Machine to find historical copies of web pages
*9. Huge Pages *
Sometimes the reason a page appears in the results is because it is one very
long page of text, briefly mentioning hundreds of subjects. Sometimes these
are useful, such as in genealogical searches. Often they are not...
In general, the most useful pages will be between 10k and 80k
To find that which you seek within a huge page, use the "Find in Page"
option of your browser:
* for Explorer & Netscape it is in the Edit menu
* Google results list a maximum size of 101k. Many of these will be
much, much larger and take forever to download.
*10. Use Boolean Phrases *
Named after George Boole, Boolean phrases are a system of logical
combinations, using words like AND, OR & NOT. It is best to always
capitalise them.
AND or "+"
Larry AND Curly AND Moe
Larry +Curly +Moe
AND requires the word to be present
OR
Chico OR Zeppo
OR allows either word to be present
NOT or "-"
Marx NOT Brothers
Marx -brothers
NOT excludes words. In this example results should display sites about
communism and not comedy.
NEAR
"Salman Rushdie" NEAR teatowel
Finds keywords within 25 (Lycos) or 10 (Alta Vista) words of each other. Not
supported by the other engines.
NEST THEM!
Marx NOT (Brothers OR Moscow)
("Jesus Christ" NOT Humor) AND (Mary OR Magdalene)
BUT DON'T GO TOO FAR!!
((alphabet AND Soup) NOT (twinkies OR "KFC")) AND nutritious
... is too confusing. Use
"alphabet soup" AND nutritious
... and if you get a lot of KFC hits, refine the results to exclude them
(most top engines support this).
*11. Choose the Best Engine
*
Don't just use any old search engine - they are all very different
* Use the advanced engines These are never on the front page but they
should be - I'm certain that 95% of users would have no difficulty
understanding them. Ditch the standard engines and bookmark the advanced
ones.
* Play the field You will naturally make one engine your favorite, but
when you have time you should play with the others. All the engines on this
site have a unique advantage, and if you can learn what they are, your
searches will become easier.
* Don't flog a dead horse If you are having difficulty finding the site
you want, try the same keywords on another engine (before resorting to
Boolean or meditating on more appropriate keywords). Or use a metasearch
engine.
FROM:
Pampana krishna chaitanya,
B.tech,II year,CSE,
Aditya engineering colleges,
surampalem,
E.G.district.
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i think google is best search engine. type exat word to search. dont prefer lenthy
messages to search. because search engine confuses and not shows right sites, so one
or two words search will give better sites. so prefer short messages.
B.MANOJ KUMAR
HYDERABAD
=====================================
Search Engine Tips.
ర ఎకవ pdfల
ంలనుకంటా ?
google ఓ ేి parent+directory+pdf#engineer# అ
టౖప ేి
enter ే google ల index of/ అ
links వా .
ాట ఓ ేసుంట ఆ
ౖ ల engineer అ ర
వన అ pdf format ల మందు
వంట. అ ాకం ఆ
ౖ ల అ pdf ల మందు
వంట. ాట ద click ఇ
ల download అవ.
ర topic engineer ాకం ఏైన type
ెసువచు.
ర pdf ాకం doc,ppt,jpeg,png etc అ type
ేి ట క
ందవచు. . ...........
symbols must be use.
parent+directory+pdf(or)doc(or)jpeg#engineer(or)mechanics(or)anyother#
From
.ప కమ, ాలాం,
రప.
K.Praveen Kumar, Rajulapalem, Tirupathi.
===========================================
Hi,greetings to EENADU.
I am sivakumarraju from kurnool.I am pursuing my MBA(systems ).
Iam going to mention some search tips on internet
for purpose i am mentioning tips in telugu language.
SEARCH ENGINE VETUKULATA_CHITKALU....
1.world lo pedda samkhyalo search engines andubatulo vunnappati,mukhyamga
google..yahoo..bing(msn search)lanu viriviga vaaduchunnaru.
2.search engine la lo google sthanam visistamynadi.
3.website design chestappu search engine optimization chestaru.e paddatilo website
sambandhi keywords,tag lines vunchutaru.
4.yentapedda websitelo ayna search engine use chesi meru anukunnadi search cheyandi.
5.for example. Meeru rbi lo recruitment kosam search chestunnatlyte search box
lo'rbi recruitment'ani enter cheste sari.
6.you can use small letter as well as big letters while using search engine. Because
letters are case sensitive in any search engine.
6.meku kavalasina samacharaniki kavalisina related vocabulary ni box lo enter cheyadni.
Ex.if you need ring tones in telugu. Type telugu ring tones in search box.if you
need particular movie ring tones then enter movie name also.
8.meru enter chesina word related search results first page lo lekapothe.tirigi
entercheyand.
IMPORTANT.,
MERU IMAGES SEARCH CHESTUNNATLYATE images search mode lo vunchandi.
Meru samacharanni blog lo search cheyalanukunte search engine ni blog mode lo enable
cheyandi.
Content ni india nunchi pondalante pages form india enable cheyandi.
HOPE THESe TIPS WILL HELP YOU FOR BETTER fast search.
Regards,
G.sivakumarraju
sjcet,kurnool
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We all know that google is most widely used search engine. There are
many tricks to search in the google.
Examples are below. If we type
"i hate them"(including quotes) gives the results of the exact phrase
containing the term
computer -technology gives the results of computer but not technology
harry potter 2002 . . 2006 gives the results of harry potter from year
2002 to 2006
link:eenadu.net shows the results of the web pages containing eenadu.net
intext:eenadu.net shows the resultsod web pages containing fencet in
the text. Similarly intitle:eenadu displays the results of web pages
containing eenadu in the title and similarly inurl:eenadu displays
results of eenadu in the url
similarly there are many like (text) site:(website address), book
(book name), info:(website address),
related:,allintext:,allinurl:,allintitle:
For more info visit www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html
from:fuzail hussain,nizamabad
=========================================
hi everyone
Here is an interesting search engine for all of you.
http://www.webferret.com/
- Open the link and you have to just download *webferret* (for free).
- You can install it in your system and select option to create a desktop
icon to easily access it.
- From that point of time,there is no necessity to strive with search
engine to open your choice of website.
- All that you have to do is to just open webferret window i.e desktop
icon which you have previously installed and type "your choice of search".
- You get a list of related websites where you can directly click the
links and get related information.
common hurry up!!!!!
--
jahnavi
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1)Boolean searching -- the operators AND, AND NOT, OR
You have asked for pizza with pepperoni and ham, but without olives
and garlic. Here's how your order will look using Boolean operators:
pizza AND pepperoni AND ham AND NOT olives AND NOT garlic.
A search engine would interpret this Boolean expression in the following way:
"The user wants me to show him or her links to all the pages that
include the word pizza as well as the word pepperoni and the word ham,
but he or she wants me to subtract pages that include the word olives
or the word garlic.
It isn't poetry, but it is logical and it works. The operator AND
means that the word that follows has to be in the text of the pages
that are to be listed. Pages including the words following AND NOT
will not be listed.
If you suspect that the restaurant is out of pepperoni, you may be a
little more open-minded about this, and say: "I would like pepperoni
or chicken". In Boolean terms that is:
pepperoni OR chicken
On the Net an order like this one will give you all the pages that
include the word pepperoni, all the pages that include the word
chicken and all the pages that include both of these words.
What happens if you take out the operators AND, AND NOT and OR and
write the following line instead?
pizza pepperoni ham olives garlic
Most search engines interpret the space between the words as AND. That
is, they will give you all the pages that include all these word. But
that was not what you were looking for, was it? You are interested in
pages that do not include the word olives or garlic, not in pages that
have to include these words.
Then again, some engines may interpret the space between the words as
OR. This means that they will even give you pages that include only
one of these words. You will, for instance, end up with a lot of
irrelevant information about the garlic industry.
At the moment true Boolean searching is supported by most of the major
search engines.
In Pandia Plus and the Open Directory you must write ANDNOT in one
word. Sorry about that!
Yahoo! dropped support for NOT and AND in 2008. Instead of NOT use a
minussign directly in front of the word to be excluded (read more
about "Boolean math" later on). Yahoo! (like most search engines) uses
AND by default. Any query containing several words will therefore mean
that Yahoo! will find pages that include all terms.
2) "Phrases"
Search engines are useful, but they are extremely stupid.
If you ask them for a pan pizza they may not only give you pages on
pizza and pan pizza, but also information about the god Pan, Pan
flutes, frying pans, Peter Pan, Pan Arabian co-operation and more.
You need a way of telling the search engine that pan pizza is an
expression or a phrase. For this you use double quotation marks:
"...", like this:
"pan pizza" AND "Italian pepperoni" AND "black olives"
This will tell the search engine to look for pages that include the
text string pan pizza, not the word pan in general
3) Proximity: the NEAR-operator
What if you are looking for a sequence of words that are normally
connected, but that may be split by other words? If you were looking
for information on the inventor Thomas Alva Edison, you could possibly
search for a phrase, like this:
"Thomas Alva Edison"
But this search would not bring you pages where the name is given as
Thomas A. Edison or Thomas Edison. You could solve this problem by
entering
"Thomas Alva Edison" OR "Thomas A. Edison" OR "Thomas Edison"
or you could use the NEAR search operator. NEAR means "show me pages
where these words are near each other".
Thomas NEAR Edison
How near is NEAR? That depends. In AltaVista the words used to be less
than 10 words apart.
dogs near/3 cats
finds documents in which dog and cat occur within three words of each
other, in either order."
By altering the number, you can decide how far apart the keyword can
be in order to be included in the results.
Until Yahoo! took over the company, AltaVista Advanced Search allowed
use of this operator. After it started using the Yahoo! search engine
for its results AltaVista no longer supports NEAR.
The only regular web search site allowing this operator until recently
was -- interestingly enough -- AOL's version of Google: AOL Search.
Unfortunately AOL seems no longer to be supporting NEAR.
However, there is a relatively new European search engine on the block
that do support quite a few advanced search features, including NEAR
and that is Exalead.
4)Search engine math -- the easier way
Now, if you find Boolean operators too intimidating, there is an
easier way. This is called simplified search syntax, pseudo-Boolean
searching, implied Boolean or (according to Danny Sullivan of Search
Engine Land) "search engine math".
It goes like this:
+pizza +pepperoni +ham -olives -garlic.
Put a plus sign in front of words that must be present on the webpage.
A minus sign in front of a word will tell the search engine to
subtract pages that contain that particular word. Hence + equals the
Boolean search term AND, and - the term AND NOT.
In most search engines you can combine the pluses and the minuses with
quotation marks, as explained above. However, you cannot use brackets
or the OR-operator.
Here is one example:
+"pan pizza" -olives pepperoni
This means that the pages the search engine shows you must include the
phrase pan pizza, they must not include the word olives, and they
should preferably include the word pepperoni.
If there is no sign in front of a word, most search engines will
nevertheless read a + sign. The engine reckons that the word should be
present . In other words: it will default to AND if it finds no
"mathematical signs".
The use of the minus sign may have some unforeseen consequences.
Imagine that you are looking for webpages that contain information
about the Star Wars movie, The Phantom Menace. You would like to avoid
pages on earlier movies in order to reduce the number of hits:
+"Star Wars" +"The Phantom Menace" -"A New Hope" -"Return of the Jedi"
-"The Empire Strikes Back"
All the earlier movies in the series are marked with a minus, meaning
that pages that include these phrases should not be included in the
"hit list". This means, however, that the search engine will subtract
all the pages that include these phrases, including pages that have
information on all the movies -- A New Hope as well as The Phantom
Menace.
The information you are looking for may obviously be on one of those
pages. Hence you should use the minus sign (or the AND NOT term for
that matter) with great care.
Please note that there must not be any space between the relevant sign
and the word! Write +"Star Wars", not + " Star Wars ".
Avoid using a "-" term as the first one in your query. Write dog -cat,
not -cat dog
SUMMARY Boolean term Search engine math
Must be present AND +
Must not be present AND NOT -
May be present OR (add no sign*)
Search for the complete phrase " " " "
Nesting ( ) (not available)
* In some search services, like Yahoo,Google and Pandia Plus, the
default is AND. In this case you will have to use OR operator or the
relevant option on a pull down menu.
5) Nesting (Brackets)
Search engines may get confused. What does the following search imply, really?
"pan pizza" AND pepperoni OR ham AND olives
The use of parentheses -- nesting -- will clear things up:
"pan pizza" AND (pepperoni OR ham) AND olives
This means that you want a pizza with olives, but are uncertain
whether you want pepperoni or ham on that pizza.
On the other hand:
("pan pizza" AND pepperoni) OR (ham AND olives)
means that you have to choose between a pepperoni pan pizza and a dish
based on ham and olives.
Yahoo! support for nesting is as of 2008 weak, to say the least.
Google does support it. Bing and Exalead have full support for the
kind of Boolean searching we are presenting here.
Now you know the basics. Some engines use the expression NOT instead
of AND NOT, but if you stick to AND NOT it should work anyway. Write
AND NOT in two words. The only exception is Pandia Plus and the Open
Directory, actually. Here you have to write ANDNOT in one word. ANDNO,
don't ask us why!
Some search engines want you to write the Boolean operators in CAPITAL
letters. The rest will ignore the difference between upper and lower
case. If you use capital letters you are on the safe side.
6)Case sensitivity
Please note that some search engines and directories are partially
case sensitive. If you spell a word or a phrase with lower case
letters in the search form, the engine will match both upper and lower
case letters on the webpage.
Searches for "apple computer" will give you pages with apple computer,
Apple Computer and even APPLE COMPUTER. It is normally not the other
way round. A search for "Bill Gates" will give you Bill Gates but not
bill gates.
As you can see, this might be useful when you are looking for persons.
By using capital letters in "Bill Gates", you avoid pages including
the words bill (meaning invoice) and gates (meaning portals) only.
7)Truncation or wildcards*
The English language gives you many variations of the same word: dog
and dogs, give and giving. Many expressions are combination of several
words: doghouse. You may be looking for some of these combinations at
the same time, normally the singular and plural form of the same noun.
In most search engines and directories, a search for
dog*
will give you pages with all words starting with the three letters
dog, including dog, dogs, dogged, doggy and dogma. As you can see, if
you were looking for dog and dogs, you will be picking up some
unwanted hits. Truncation or wildcards works best when the stem is
longer and if the stem is not a root of many other common words.
Please note that a lot of search engines "stem" keywords, i.e. they
will automatically search for dog if you enter the keyword "dogs" and
vice versa.
Note also that Google has introduced a special "tilde"-operator that
lets you search for synonyms. If you place the tilde sign ("~")
immediately in front of a keyword, Google will replace that keyword
with a list of words with a similar meaning, thus extending your
search.
For instance: to search for food facts as well as nutrition and
cooking information, enter the following query: ~food ~facts.
8)Field searching
When the search engine robots retrieve information from webpages
around the world, they sort the information into various categories or
"fields". The main fields that can be accessed in field searching are:
Title: This is the text you can read in the bar at the top of the
browser window (not the main headline on the webpage itself). The
title normally contains important keywords referring to the content of
the page. If you restrict your search to the page titles, you will get
fewer -- but more focused -- hits. You could for instance search for
petunias AND title:gardening.
URL: This is the address (the Uniform Resource Locator) of a page,
e.g. http://www.pandia.com/. You may restrict you search to pages with
addresses that contain a certain word. If you want to restrict your
search to the Pandia tutorial, you can do a search like this: "field
searching" AND url:pandia.com/goalgetter.
Domains: The domain is the unique name that identifies an Internet
site. Domain Names have two or more parts, separated by dots. The part
on the left is the most specific, and the part on the right is the
most general. Cf. yahoo.com and pandia.com. The domain name is
normally part of the Web and email address.
Some search engines allow you to restrict your search to a specific
domain. By doing a domain-search you may for instance restrict your
search to pages in a specific country. British pages normally end in
the letters .uk. A search for Jaguar AND car AND domain:.uk should
give you British pages containing information on the Jaguar car.
There are also some top level domains (com, org, net etc.) that are
not restricted to specific countries, although they are predominantly
American. You can use these endings to restrict your search to
commercial (.com), US educational (.edu), US governmental (.gov) or US
military (.mil) sites.
Our Q-cards have details on how to do these and other forms of field
searching with the various search engines
9)Error codes
"404 not found"
OK. You find an interesting site in your favorite directory. You click
on the relevant link, and -- alas -- get an error code!
If you get the message "Document not found" when trying to open a
webpage, do not despair. The message confirms that the site exists,
and the webpage may still be there. If you look at a Web address like
this one: http://www.pandia.com/search/faq.html, you will see that it
looks very much like a file address on a PC or a MAC (cf.
C:\documents\letter.doc or harddrive/documents/letter.doc).
As a matter of fact, an HTTP-address is a file address. http:// tells
your browser to look for a webpage; www.pandia.com tells it to look
for a server or computer called www.pandia.com; /search/ tells it to
look for the directory (or folder) called "search"; and the last part
tells it to open a file called faq.html that should be in that
directory.
However, there is no directory called "search" on this server. You
have been given an incorrect or out dated address. There may be a file
with information about faq.html higher up in the file hierarchy,
though.
So here's what you do: Delete the last part of the address until you
come to the next "/". Then you are left with http://www.pandia.com/.
Then hit "enter" and see what you get. If an address ends with a slash
(/), you are not specifying what file the browser should look for.
Following the rules of the Internet, however, the browser will then
look for a file that is defined as "default" by the server (normally
called index.html or default.html). The main webpage or index in any
directory is most often named -- you guessed it -- index.html. And
there it is, http://www.pandia.com/index.html has a link to the Pandia
FAQ.
Addresses on the Internet:
World Wide Web http://www.pandia.com/index.html (points to a web-page
coded in hypertext mark-up language or HTML)
Files ftp://domain.com/file.zip (points to a file on an Internet server)
Newsgroups news:alt.domain-names.disputes (points to a newsgroup on the Usenet)
E-mail firstname.lastname@domain.com (points to an email-address)
Gopher gopher://home.eunet.no:70/
00/1/readgop (points to a gopher-file - an old fashioned standard for
distributing information on the Internet)
The server does not have a DNS entry
If your browser is unable to locate the server (the computer
containing the webpage) this could mean that the server does not exist
any more. However, it could also be that the server is down for
maintenance or that the network is busy. In any case: Try again later.
If you have typed the address (URL), do check the spelling!
If everything fails, and you get the same error message the next day,
you could visit Google at http://www.google.com/, a search engine that
keep copies of the indexed webpages on their servers. You may find an
old version of the file you are looking for there.
Yahoo! has more information on error codes:
http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/writeus/error.html
10)Menu based Web searching
If you discuss advanced Internet searching with search engine
officials, they will probably tell you that most searchers are not
interested in learning true Boolean searching, and that they prefer
menu based search options. This may be so, but then again most
searchers do not know what they are missing.
We find menu based search facilities to be more confusing than Boolean
searching, and they are not as flexible when it comes to building more
complex queries. That being said, menu based pages for advanced
searching may be quite efficient, as soon as you get a grip on how
they work.
(If you do not know a search form from a web address field or a pull
down menu from a radio button, please read the absolute beginners text
box below first.)
A menu based search page will include one (or more) search forms where
you enter your search query. The simplest versions will give you one
form to enter all your keywords, and a pull down menu that gives
various options regarding how these keywords are to be treated by the
search engine.
Normally these options are:
• All these words, meaning that the search engine is to fetch pages
that have all these words on them (equals Boolean AND or +)
• Any words or One of these words, meaning that the search engine is
to fetch pages that have at least one of these words, but not
necessarily all, on them (equals Boolean OR)
• This exact phrase, meaning that the search engine is to find pages
that include these words in this particular order. When using Boolean
searching or search engine math you would enclose the words in double
quotation marks (“-“)
This type of pull down menus do not give you the opportunity to
exclude words (Boolean AND NOT). However, there are some search
engines that let you distribute your search terms over several search
fields, where each of them has its own pull down menu with options
signifying whether this word or these words
• have to be included on the page (Boolean AND)
• may be included on the page (Boolean OR)
• must not be included on the page (Boolean AND NOT)
See for instance Google's advanced search page.
By filling in all the fields you can actually build quite complex queries.
It helps to picture each of these forms as separate filters or sieves,
one put beneath the other, and each of them filtering out and
discarding a certain number of web pages. The search engine pours in
all the web pages available and sorts out the pages you do not need on
the basis of these filters.
For instance, if you tell the search engine that the pages that are to
be fetched have to include the word “agriculture”, it will normally
filter out all pages that do not include this word (Google makes
exceptions to this rule, but that should not concern us here).
Most menu based pages for advanced searching also provides other types
of filters, predominantly for various forms of “field searching”. For
instance, you may limit the search to Web pages that have been made
within a certain time period, i.e. you ask the search engine to filter
out pages that do not belong to this period.
You may also select pages written in a particular language, thus
excluding all other languages, or you may look for pages belonging to
a certain site (pandia.com) or a certain type of domain (for instance
.edu for American educational sites or .no for Norwegian sites), thus
sorting out all pages that do not belong to this site or domain.
Each “filter” you apply will narrow down your search and return fewer
results. You will normally have to experiment to get the optimal
results – too many filters and you end up sorting out useful and
relevant pages, too few and you end up with too many hits.
An example of a menu search form.
Here is a version of the Pandia Powersearch Metasearch Engine that may
serve as an example of a menu based search form. It combines the use
of pull down menus with radio buttons.
Where »
Language »
Match » All words Any word Exact phrase
Description » Full Minimum URLs Only
Per-Page » Ranking »
The first pull down menu (marked The Entire Web) can be used to select
what kind of files you are looking for ("Entire Web" for regular Web
pages, "MP3" for music files etc.).
There are also options for limiting the search to pages from a
particular country. This applies only to regular searches for Web
pages and will limit results to URLs that ends with that nation's
national domain (e.g. .no for Norway). Please note, however, that many
sites have domain names ending in .com, .org., .net, even if they are
not American.
The language option will filter out pages written in the language you
are looking for, regardless of domain.
Using this form you click on radio buttons (the small circles) to
select search terms ("All Words" = AND, "Any Word" = OR, "Exact
phrase" = ah, well, "Exact phrase") and the length of the site
description given on the result pages.
Then there is a separate pull down menu you can use to choose how many
results the search engine is to present per page.
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To eenadu,
as we know that google is the widely used search engine,there are many
tricks to search in the google. They are 1 if we want to search only
in the urls softwares we should type inurl:softwares
like that if we want to search in only text then type
intext:softwares
like that there are many more visit
www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html . . . From fuzail
hussain,nizamabad
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*Respected sir,
Once again thanks for publishing my posts....Here some
Search Engine tips I am posting..For the previous question on the paper...I
hope it will helpful...
SEARCH ADVANCED WITH GOOGLE*
For example you want to download resume templates in .doc format..for
your resume preparation....just goto: www.google.com ... and select *Advanced
Search *it is beside located on the search box...After selected a window
will opens..In all these words box...Type Resume templates....and select the
file type...then click on Advanced Search...Then results may shown on next
page..just clicking the result automatically downloaded the resume templates
in .doc format...
*ENABLE WEB HISTORY IN GOOGLE*
If you want to know the details....which you are searched a week ago...by
mistake you have deleted your web history on browser at that time this will
useful.. by using web history you can access those site online which you are
browsed before...To use this feature need to have a User of Google
account..Just log in and see your web history ...goto:
www.google.com/history
*PREVIEW VIDEO BEFORE WATCHING*
Yes it will done by Bing Search Engine...just goto: www.bing.com and
select videos and enter search word...just place the cursor on the
corresponding video....You will be previewed some parts of that video
instantly....
*COMPANY SEARCH ENGINE*
Accoona allows you to search more info about companies in the world
http://www.accoona.com/
*PREVIEW THE WEBPAGE BEFORE ENTERING*
Exalead allows you to preview the webpage before entering....Videos are
to be watched with in the tab...and select Advanced search beside of the
search box...You will be searched in detailed...
http://www.exalead.com/search/
*SEARCH WHATS NEW IN WIKIPEDIA*
http://www.factbites.com/index.html
*THE GREEN SEARCH ENGINE*
Gigablast is the leading clean-energy search engine. *90%* of its power
comes from *wind energy*,using PNM's Sky Blue energy program, thus only
using a miniscule 13 amps of coal power.
http://www.gigablast.com/
*SEARCH IN EASY STYLE*
Quintura is a search engine that allows you to search the word and related
words... in graphical mode
http://www.quintura.com/
*THE SECRET SEARCH ENGINE*
The secret search engine..searches the differently with existing
others...
http://www.secretsearchenginelabs.com/
*SOME SEARCH ENGINES*
http://www.raroi.com/
http://www.beaucoup.com/
http://search.yippy.com/
http://www.dogpile.com/
http://www.etools.ch/
http://directory.findelio.com/
http://tinyurl.com/yz5u6ea
http://www.ixquick.com/
http://www.mamma.com/
http://www.metacrawler.com/
http://www.search.com/
http://www.1websdirectory.com/
*
Thanking You,
Y
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