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OT Any helpful advice for using search engines.

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Chances R

12-19-2004 13:26:00




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Yep, I am sure many of you use them also. I get kind of fustrated having to view so many pages trying to find what I am looking for. Is there any tricks to narrow the search, or a way to have a exact match. Thank you and have a great Christmas!
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Nebraska Cowman

12-19-2004 15:02:49




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 Re: OT Any helpful advice for using search engines in reply to Chances R, 12-19-2004 13:26:00  
Like was said, the more words you type in you should be able to narrow your search. If you are looking for an exact phrase just put it between "qoutations" Here's your Link



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ebbsspeed

12-19-2004 14:55:30




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 Re: OT Any helpful advice for using search engines in reply to Chances R, 12-19-2004 13:26:00  
As said before, quotation marks enclosing two or more words will find only exact matches for those phrases. So if you are looking for information about a John Deere Model B, typing it this way: "john deere model B" will only return results with that exact wording. Now let's get even more specific in that we want to find out some information about a Power Trol on a John Deere Model B. Since we can't be sure that all six of those words will be in a row, a single set of quotation marks likely won't be of too much use. So we do it this way with the + sign, indicating that we only want to see results that contain both the following phrases: +"john deere model b" +"power trol"
Now let's use the - sign. Let's say in the above search you still got a lot of information about remote cylinders, which you really don't want to see. So you can use the minus sign to eliminate any of those matches that contain a certain word or phrase, like this:
+"john deere model b" +"power trol" -remote
NOTE THAT THE + OR - sign needs to be directly in front of the word or phrase, with no spaces.

Happy Searching!

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VaTom

12-19-2004 13:43:27




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 Re: OT Any helpful advice for using search engines in reply to Chances R, 12-19-2004 13:26:00  
Give this clustering search engine a try:



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Fawteen

12-19-2004 13:41:59




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 Re: OT Any helpful advice for using search engines in reply to Chances R, 12-19-2004 13:26:00  
The syntax varies somewhat from engine to engine, but in general there are two major tips:

1. Use quote marks. The engine will only hit on things that are an exact match for what's in the quotes. Example John Deere GP will hit on any document that contains any of the three words. "John Deere GP" will only hit on documents that contain the entire phrase.

2. Use Boolean (or logic) functions. John Deere .NOT. GP will hit on pages that have John Deere, but eliminate the ones that refer to GPs. Other logic functions are AND and OR. Exact syntax varies from engine to engine, check the help file for the engine you're using.

Also, different engines will return different results. Contrary to popular belief, there IS life after Google...

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