Web Search Tips

These two August 21, 2003 articles by The New York Times' Lisa Guernsey have useful tips for Web searchers. Unfortunately, I didn't notice these in time to use the rss feed for the addresses, so readers have to register with the Times, and the links will "expire" into the pay-as-you-go archives eventually.

http://nytimes.com/2003/08/21/technology/circuits/21basi.html?pagewanted=all&;position=

Fishing for Information? Try Better Bait
THE notion of a user's manual for search engines might seem counterintuitive. Give people an empty search box and a button to click on and somehow they know exactly what to do. But as the Web gets larger and more complicated, encompassing PDF documents, movies and audio files, product databases and ever-changing pages, it can help to know a few tricks that are not so obvious.

http://nytimes.com/2003/08/21/technology/circuits/21bbox.html

Tools to Dress Up The Web Browser
IF you still type "www.google.com" into your browser every time you need to search the Web, it's time to learn about toolbars and bookmarklets.

Update: I like the automatic search window that is part of the Firefox browser. (But this line is really being added to test whether my article editor is behaving when I save these changes.)

This page has never been updated, but it was reposted 10/28/06 to test the Web server.

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