New to the internet? If you want to know how to search the Internet, then you have to find the right search engine, type what you are looking for as precisely as possible, and search through the results to determine which one you are looking for.
Steps
Step 1. Select a search engine
Open the browser you use. At the beginning of any page on your computer, write the phrase "search engines" in the search bar, you will get a list of results through which you can access different internet sites that specifically help in searches. Some of the most common search engines are:
- Ask
- Bing
- Blekko
- Dogpile
- DuckDuckGo
- Yahoo!
Step 2. Press the Enter key on your computer keyboard
Step 3. Pick some of the most specific or relevant words or phrases that describe the topic that interests you
Use synonyms. Type your choice of words in the search bar of the search engine you have chosen.
- Capitalization and punctuation marks are generally not necessary.
- Search engines usually discard small words like "the, the, and, a, etc."
Step 4. Press the Enter key on your keyboard
Step 5. Evaluate your results
Search the list of pages to locate the information you require.
Step 6. Repeat the above steps as needed
- Choose a different search engine.
- Pick new search words that are "more or less" specific.
Step 7. Use the advanced search option found on most of these sites
Step 8. Use the Site Map of a site
Step 9. It is not correct to assume that what you are looking for is more or less equally visible in all search engines, and that therefore it does not matter which to choose
The latest and most successful search engines also sort the pages according to a ranking that is assigned as a result of an application of a complex, ever-changing, usually secret, mechanism and is different for each search engine. Although the engines will probably be "consistent" for highly popular websites, the less popular ones can be "rated" very differently and so it makes sense to try different search engines.
Advice
- Put a sign of plus (+) before each "word separately" within your search results like + writer + grammar + punctuation.
- Put a "minus" sign (-) before each word to "skip a word," such as "meat-recipe" for meatless or vegetarian-friendly recipes.
- Use quotation marks, to see "consecutive words of a phrase," as "flower arrangement."
- Write a short question like, "what time is it?"
- When searching, use the option to mark any page of your interest with a "bookmark"
- In Google you can search by specific file type by typing filetype:, for example: "filetype: pdf" and write the subject of what you are going to search for, then you will see that it will display all the pdf files on that subject.