, I find Start page is
just as good as google. You don’t get advertising. I prefer
start page as my search engine. I tell everybody Iknow I is
a good search engine.
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On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 10:00 AM, Gene
wrote:
It is unfortunate that so many people are
unaware of the power and value of Google searches or other
good search engine searches.
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Amen to that!
I have preached, repeatedly, that knowing how to do a web
search, in 2021, is a basic skill, and if you don't have it
then acquiring it is one of the first things you should be
trying to do.
And the range of search operators for any search engine is
wide (and not often necessary to deal with, I might add) and
allows you to drill through a world of data with almost
laser-like focus.
One of the operators I do use with some frequency, and which
applies here, is the site:
operator. While, like any search term, it can be stuck
anywhere in a list of search criteria I generally place it
either at the beginning or the end. If you only wanted to
search for something at NVAccess then adding the search term site:nvaccess.org
(no spaces, just the word site, the colon, and the website
sans any need for http://) and you will be
searching only that website for content. You can even get
more specific, such that if you only wanted to search the News
portion of the NVAccess site, you would put, site:nvaccess.org/news.
That one operator, when you know that you only want
content from a single website or some sub-segment of that
site, will eliminate possibly hundreds of thousands of
extraneous results.
Google has a great Advanced Search
page, with fillable edit boxes/dropdowns, that tells you (if
it's accessible) right after all of those fill-in boxes how
you can do the same thing in a regular Google Search using
operators, as most of us will never come close to combining
all of the potential advanced options on the Advanced Search
page. There are also more tutorials that you can shake a
stick at regarding Google Search operators and how to use
them.
--
Brian - Windows
10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 20H2, Build 19042
The depths of denial one can
be pushed to by outside forces of disapproval can make you
not even recognize yourself to yourself.
~ Brian
Vogel
