I have mentioned PubSub several times over the past year — it is a terrific way to keep up with information on the Internet, without having to constantly check resources day after day. Once you set PubSub to monitor your keyword searches for you, all you have to do is wait for the results to
Search Tips
Become a URL Expert
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Tips, Useful Web Sites
Sometimes an important part of getting to the right source on the Internet is knowing the exact URL. Once you understand how URLs work, you can often find information that did not appear to be immediately available. The folks at Eipert Information Services have a two-part series on URLs that you should definitely check out:…
When Cheating is Good For You
By Tom Mighell on
Most search engines provide you with the ability to “power search” by using special syntax. Trouble is, this syntax isn’t always easy to figure out. Google’s helping out with that, by providing this handy cheat sheet with helpful syntax, shortcuts, and more.
Even MORE Shortcuts
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Search Tips
Not satisfied with the shortcuts Greg Notess showed you yesterday? Then head over to SearchDay, where Gary Price offers More Yahoo Search Shortcuts.
Shortcut to better research
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Search Tips
Using shortcuts at the various search engines is a terrific way to get your research done quickly and efficiently. Finding out about these shortcuts is the hard part. Greg Notess points you to shortcuts of some of the major search engines in Search Engine Prefixes and Shortcuts.
Become a Hunter
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Tips
There’s an article over at vnunet that addresses a real danger of the Internet age: that search engines make us dumb. The author states that
“Search engines are dangerous because they limit our ability to discover.”
How true. Many Internet search gurus have begun to describe research via search engine as “passive…
Cool Google News Search Tip
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Tips
If you haven’t used Google News yet, what are you waiting for? On the home page you can get the most recent headlines in various categories, and a link under each headline to a number of “related articles.” There’s another way to do this:
- When you find an article that’s right on point, copy the
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