How To Search The Web

Tips on how to search the web

This page will show you how to search the web and find what you want. I also included a video tutorial.

With all the clutter, it can be frustrating sometimes when you are looking for a specific item and everything comes up except what you want. The secret to searching the web is to be specific. If you are searching for music lessons, be specific about what type of music lessons and where. For example, use terms like: “Private Saxophone lessons in Dallas, TX or “Dinner on a budget.” It makes your search results more relevant or specific if you enclose it in ‘Quotation Marks.” This way you don’t get a lot of results with stuff you don’t want.

I remember when Amazon used to come up in every search result: “find books about . . .”whatever you searched for.” They would show up at the very top or on the right side of the page.

The results that come up on the side and at the very top are paid search results. Those results may or may not be relevant but they contained key words close to what you typed in.

In a nutshell, the more specific you can be about what you are searching for, the easier it is to find what you want. When you type in a search phrase, search engines look for web pages that contain the closest match of information or “text” in the pages to what you want. Search engines don’t read pictures, they read words.

With that said, when searching the web, it helps to know how something might be referenced. A photographer friend of mine was looking for the cardboard photo frames to use to enclose 4 x 6 photos in for his customers. He didn’t know how to find them because he didn’t know what they were called so I suggested he use the term “paper photo frames” and it pulled what he was looking for right up. So be specific and you will find what you are looking for.

Until next time, that’s your lesson on searching the web.

Video Tutorial for searching the web