🌠 Taking Advantage of ALL the Ways You Can Search the Internet

Ever wake up one morning and think to yourself:

“Jeepers self, if only I knew all of the ways I could find information online!”

If so you’re definitely not alone – especially with a recession looming, learning how to uncover new ways of teaching yourself new skills should you need to pivot to earn money is crucial!

That’s why you’ll love the following (and be sure to return back once you’re done so you can benefit from the additional resources I uncovered for you):

www.mindtools.com/pages/article/internet-searching.htm

There, you’ll discover goodies like:

“… Simplify Your Search Terms

Some engines include stop words in their searches. These are frequently used words such as prepositions (in, of, on), conjunctions (and, but) and articles (a, the), which mean that you’ll end up with more pages in your search results than you need.

So, it’s usually best to eliminate stop words from your internet searches. The main exception is if you’re looking for a specific title or name that includes them….”
and

“Remove Unhelpful Words

Inserting a hyphen/small dash/minus sign immediately before a word excludes it from a search.

So imagine, for example, that you’re looking to find out more about marketing. However, you want to concentrate on traditional marketing techniques, whereas the internet appears to be full of references to digital and social media marketing, all of which are appearing in your search.

Typing in marketing -digital will exclude digital from the search, making it easier for you to find the information you’re looking for. Typing marketing -digital -social would allow you to get rid of even more clutter….”

and more!

Mastering online search is a topic that could make for a grand challenge, cheatsheet, tutorial and more. You could structure it like so:

Step 1.) Look First for General Online Search Tutorials

Need help with that? Consider:

libguides.library.cpp.edu/researchtutorials

www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-great-tutorial-websites-learn/

www.lifewire.com/web-search-tricks-to-know-4046148

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPfavwaYHaA

Next, move to:

Step 2.) Uncover Search Engines Other Than Google

Need resources for that? Check out:

www.searchenginejournal.com/alternative-search-engines/271409/