The Internet is a vast collection of information, files etc. that is growing almost exponentially. With so much available, how do you find what you are looking for?
Here are a couple of suggestions for how you came make your searching more useful and exact:
1. Be as specific as you can in your search terms.
2. Use “advanced” search options to narrow down your searches even more.
When you are more specific in your search terms, you usually add more words to the “search terms” box. As an example, here are some recent search results from Google about upgrading your computer memory:
| Search Term(s): | Number of Results: |
| Computer | 652,000,000 |
| Computer Memory | 30,200,000 |
| Computer Memory Upgrade | 4,270,000 |
As you add more words to your search terms to make them more specific, the number of results is greatly reduced. If you then take advantage of “advanced” search options such as choosing only videos (to see how upgrades are done), the last upgrade term returns only 2,180 results!
There are many other “advanced” options that you can use to zero in on the results that are most useful to you. You can ask for results only in a certain language, only within a certain date range, only from a blog, etc. Take advantage of the search tools available to you and you will get to the useful information on the Internet.
