Inspector-Find's Guide to Search Engine Tutorials

InspectorFind's Search Tutorials ..... It is not enough just to understand how-to use the Search Engine and the MetaSearch Engine but one must havethe skills to validate the sources found on the Net.

Part 1: How-To Usethe: Search Engine, MetaSearch Engine & Web Directory. Tutorials from the top search engineand web directory sites themselves. "Improve your searching skills so youcan find what you are looking for faster and more efficiently."

AltaVista AdvancedSearch Tutorial :: AltaVista Advanced Web search allows you to create specific queries that instruct AltaVista to return more precise results. You can use either the query builder or the free-form Boolean box to find the Web pages you want.

Basic Web search tips

AltaVista invites you to search its digital content collection containing billions of Web pages, data resources and multimedia files by simply typing a query and clicking the Search button.

When you type multiple words in the search box, AltaVista looks for Web pages that contain all of the words.
Be as specific as you can. (Example: Baltimore Ravens instead of just Ravens)
Enter words that you think will appear on the Web page you want. AltaVista indexes all of the words on each Web page.
To search for an exact phrase, put it in quotes (Example: "to be or not to be").
Uppercase and lowercase are treated the same. To maintain a certain capitalization, put the word in quotes.
Words with punctuation between them are treated as if they are surrounded in quotes. All punctuation marks are treated equally.
(Example: Ford.mustang/convertible gives the same results as "ford mustang convertible".)
If you get results in other languages, either Translate the Web pages or select your preferred language in the search box menu.
If you include an accent in a query word, AltaVista only matches words with that particular accent. If you do not include an accent, AltaVista will match words both with and without accents. This means you can search for French, German or Spanish words, even if you have an English-only keyboard.

Nothing pleases us more than having our valued users embark on a fruitful search. The following tips can help you to achieve better, more thorough results.

Search the way you want to search
Jeeves responds to questions, phrases, or single words, giving you options and making it easy for you to search the way you want.

Search One: Where can I find cheap airfare to New York ?
Search Two: Cheap airfare to New York
Search Three: Cheap airfare

BrightPlanet :: EffectiveSearching of the Internet
Your ability to find theinformation you search for on the Internet is afunction of how preciseyour queries are and how effectively you use searchservices. Poor queriesreturn poor search results; good queries return greatresults. Contraryto the hype surrounding "intelligent agents" and"artificial intelligence,"the fact remains that search results areonly as good as the query youpose and how you search. There is no silverbullet...
http://www.brightplanet.com/resources/details/searching.html

FourNETS for Better Searching
Most people use a searchengine by simply typing a few words into the query boxand then scrollingthrough whatever comes up. Sometimes their choice of wordsends up narrowingthe search unduly and causing them not to find what they'relooking for.More often the end result of the search is a haystack of off-targetwebpages that must be combed through. You can do better than that, and that'swhatthis page is about... http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm

Google : The Essentials of Google Search Doing a search onGoogle is easy. Simply type one or more search terms (the words or phrase thatbest describe the information you want to find) into the search box and hit the'Enter' key or click on the Google Search button. Youcan increase the accuracy of your searches by adding operators that fine-tuneyour keywords. Most of the options listed on this page can be entered directlyinto the Google search box...

Pandia :: InternetSearch Tutorial
Itwill take you approximately 30 minutes to read the search tutorialthrough,and you will learn the essentials of Internet searching in less thananhour. By improving your searching skills you will be able to find whatyou arelooking for faster and more efficiently. How is that for an investment?
http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/index.html

Search Engine Watch :: Metacrawlers List U nlike search engines, metacrawlersdon't crawl the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searchesto be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then blended together onto one page. Below are some of the major metacrawlers. http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156241

Noodle Quest :: One of the hardest parts about doingacademic research on the Internet is figuring out where to start! A searchengine is usually the first thing to try, but what search engines are the mostuseful for your topic? Fill in the short form below, and we'll point you in theright direction. http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest/

Yahoo :: FindingIt Online Theinterconnected and dynamic nature of the Net prevents it from being organizedlike a traditional medium, such as a book or a newspaper. But don'tworry,another great thing about the Internet is that it comes up with solutionsfor its own problems. Enter Internet Guides and Search Engines... If theInternet were a book, Internet Guides would be the table of contents. Theyorganize web sites into related categories or topics, just like a table ofcontents organizes the chapters in a book into different sections...

YahooDirectory Help TheYahoo! Directory and Yahoo! Search are different tools that work togethertooffer you a broad range of relevant search results. http://help.yahoo.com/help/dir/

Yahoo!Search Help Answersto these questions: What's changed with Yahoo! Search? How does asearch onYahoo! work? What are the different sections on the search resultspage? Why dosome of the results look different than other results? What isAdvanced Search?Can I write my own code to point to your search form? andmore. http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/