Who says you are too old to learn? - Rubbish! I just learnt something new today :)
While we have heard the names of popular search engines, they all work in different ways to find and index the contents of the web.
While we have heard the names of popular search engines, they all work in different ways to find and index the contents of the web.
- Subject searching - think Yahoo
- Want to ask a question? - Try a natural language search - Ask
- Want to find all the places a word crops up - think keywords - GOOGLE is for you
Though search engines will help you find what you are looking for, it is still up to you to evaluate the authenticity of the result(s) they return. I like this quote and personally think this sums up my view on searching:
"You have to drill through mud and water to get oil, you have to sift through sand and silt to get gold, you have to chop and hack through stone to get diamonds... So why do so many people feel that the treasure of ideas should come to them with little or no effort" - Sydney J. Harris
