Andrew;
Narrowing a particular search is just a matter of using the proper
terms, which is sometimes a matter of eliminating words, sometimes you
have to try phrases you think particularly relevant, or just add words
you think will help your cause. For example, if you remembered a
particular shell selling site with certain uncommon features, you could
just put them all in a search and voila - no problem at all! For
example, the simple combination of "Specimen shells", wierd [sic] and
"ecological footprint" singles my litte site out of 7,500 sites
answering the call of just "specimen shells"!! // Finding info on the
web using a search engine - even a sophisticated one such as Google.com,
is sometimes tricky and challenging, but a bit of imagination and memory
skills (plus a bit of luck every now and then....) will almost always
find you what you are looking for, in a reasonable time frame.
From the foggy foggy dews of Novelle Ecosse,
ross mayhew,
Andrew wrote:
>Google's various search functions are quite "state of the art", and it
>is probably the best search engine around these days. One of the most
>useful of these functions, however, is the ability to search for a
>phrase, such as "Macron lividus". Just put the entire phrase in
>quotation marks. "For the record", another useful gadget is the use of
>the "-" sign to exclude words or phrases (as in -whatever). By using
>these two means cleverly, one can devise searches which can find pretty
>well anything on the web!!
The problem is sorting out the wheat from the chaff!
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
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Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
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