Re: Microsoft's Own Security Chief Says: STOP using Internet Explorer
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Gene
You can make searching very complicated but it is
usually unnecessary. Its good to know about quotes and using plus or minus
if you want to limit a search at times but for most searches, this is
unnecessary.
Search engines are consumer products. They
want to make searches effective for those who know nothing about searching using
such variables. If I want to search for something, I usually get good
results just by searching for what I want to find, no alterations, no signs
added. For example, if I want to search for information about the book
Oliver Twist, if I simply type Oliver twist and if I want to find articles
dealing with literary critism, I may type critique or criticism or critic, I'd
have to experiment because (I haven't searched for that description so often
that I'm sure what might get the best results, I can find all sorts of
information. If I want more general information, I might type Oliver Twist
Wikipedia. Or Oliver Twist Britanica. Or even just Oliver Twist and
nothing else would probably provide a variety of results.
If I want to find a song on Youtube, I just type
the name of the song followed by Youtube. I seldom have to do anything
else.
Many people are needlessly intimidated by
searching. Keep in mind that we are in a completely different era than in
the early days of the Internet. We are dealing with a consumer product and
that as such, it is designed to guess about what people are searching for who
know nothing about anything except the most elementary way to search.
That's how consumer products are. If they can be simplified over time,
they will be.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: Shaun Everiss
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2019 1:44 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Microsoft's Own Security Chief Says: STOP using
Internet Explorer Well there are books in searching, but you can control your search engine. putting quotes round the items to search will search spacifically for that item online and nothing else. You can add plus or minus simbles to search for extra items or not search for items. Wildcards like * can be used, now there are various books on the net search thing, I forget where they can be gotten. Your local blind organisation may have courses to teach people how to use computers that are blind. And sone of those could deal with the net, and searching. Some universities and other places may have them to and these can be usually free or low cost so I would recomend doing one of those if you want that is. Search engines can be and have been quite smart for an age now, but they can get something wrong from time to time. There have been a few massive foulups by google and others. On 10/02/2019 2:02 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:
On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 06:46 PM, MAX wrote:
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