How to Find Information Online



Many people have been frustrated by searching up a simple query online and not getting right results. But the World Wide Web is a big place! It will definitely have anything you're looking for. Unfortunately, sometimes that's just the problem: there are too much results. There are a lot of clever ways of finding information online without getting frustrated over search engines.

Steps   [edit]

  1. Try simple search queries. For example, if you're looking for an old actor who's not popular today, type in his or her name in a search engine such as Google. If your results are useless, move on to other search engines (a complete list of good engines in external links section).
  2. Learn some searching shortcuts. This way, you don't have to use advanced search all the time. For example, on Google, if you're looking for a specific phrase, type the phrase inside the quotes ("the phrase") and search it. Most of search engines have this option.
  3. Be sure to bookmark useful results. For example, if you're looking for something and you find another thing that is totally different, but you happen to find it interesting, bookmark the site. Maybe it has lots of other good content and when you are looking for something related to that topic, you have it safely stowed away in your bookmarks.
  4. Try alternate words. Use synonyms and put a query in a different form. You might find something exciting.
  5. Search in different languages. Google translator is a good tool to translate some web-pages and text. This lets you search the internet in different languages and then have the results translated into English.


Tips   [edit]

  • Do not give up too quickly. Sometimes content is out there and is just waiting for right word to be typed in.
  • Site search is a good way to find content in specific site.


Warnings   [edit]

  • Do not rely on translation sites for perfect translations - they are approximate and frequently make very odd errors that do not accurately reflect the language.