 Effective Internet Search:
About the
Book
Book excerpts
Although we consider this an important step
in your search strategy, interestingly few references
include it. Perhaps this is because most mainstream search
engines can't process your search results with any level of
sophistication.
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To search engines, the second most important
Internet application after the Web is news. All search
engines featured in this book have a specialized news
document search interface, except for Copernic and MSN
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Filters can be very useful in refining your
searches. In this excerpt from Chapter 6, the use of wildcards
and stemming, different spellings and phonetic matching,
formatting masks, and ignored words and characters, are
explained. Practice exercises applying these concepts are also
provided.
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One aspect of the overall organization of
findings is how the findings are organized into pages and within
pages. Appendix 6.3 deals with parameters that are available to
change the default ordering, other than parameters entered as
preference settings. The discussion focuses on page organization
parameters you can set dynamically, that is, apply to the single
search you are conducting — specifically to control the number
of findings shown per page.
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Screenshots of the five search engines
included in the book are featured prominently throughout.
This enables you to view book examples exactly as they
appear on the Internet. For your convenience, screenshots
are often enlarged as seen
here.
Four articles on searching; also available in HTML:
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