{"id":1626,"date":"2022-02-15T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2022-02-14T12:53:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:53:52","slug":"web-search-take-the-time-to-get-good-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=1626","title":{"rendered":"Web Search &#8211; Take the Time to Get Good at it!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The goal of your web search should be to find the info you seek in one search. Yes, ONE. Is that possible? YES! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Step one: THINK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A) Figure out EXACTLY what you are looking for. Don&#8217;t be general [&#8220;<em>I want to know about rivers nearby&#8221;<\/em>], be as specific as you can [<em>&#8220;I want to know the average depth of the rivers near Macon, Georgia.<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B) Phrase that in the form of a question, THEN underline the important words. The underlined words become your search terms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example &#8220;<em>I want to know the average depth of the rivers near Macon, Georgia<\/em>&#8221; would become &#8220;<em>average depth rivers near Macon Georgia<\/em>&#8221; . THAT is what you type in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Step two: SEARCH and LOOK AT THE RESULTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A) Check the results. DO NOT just stick with the first page &#8211; often the results you seek are on page two or three of the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">B) LOOK AT THE RESULT &#8211; do not just click on the first link. The results will have the web address listed &#8211; take a look at the first bit of the address. Is it actually a legit source you can trust? ALSO look at the text after the address &#8211; that will give clues on how useful the info ill be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"539\" data-attachment-id=\"1627\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?attachment_id=1627\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tech.mountdesales.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1.png?fit=634%2C721&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"634,721\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tech.mountdesales.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1.png?fit=474%2C539&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tech.mountdesales.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1.png?resize=474%2C539&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tech.mountdesales.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1.png?w=634&amp;ssl=1 634w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tech.mountdesales.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1.png?resize=264%2C300&amp;ssl=1 264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tech.mountdesales.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1.png?resize=132%2C150&amp;ssl=1 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption>You can probably trust SOME of these sources, but not all!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>www.federalpay.org will probably not be much help! <\/li><li>The National Weather service indeed keeps up with river levels, so that might be a good link. <\/li><li>go-georgia.com &#8211; looking at the description, that is going to give me a list of river tours companies. Also not much help.<\/li><li>Wikipedia? Sometimes helpful, sometimes not. Sometime accurate, sometimes not. In this case it would probably be faster to look elsewhere.<\/li><li>epd.georgia.gov &#8211; the &#8220;.gov&#8221; tells you it is an official site with the state of Georgia. The description tells us that the link is to a PDF file will all sorts of stream and river data for Georgia. That might be useful.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Step Three: I can&#8217;t find what I am looking for!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Here are some additional things to try:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Make certain you have followed the tips above. DO NOT use complete sentences, unless you really like wasting time.<\/li><li>Think of synonyms for your search terms. For example &#8220;stream&#8221; instead of &#8220;river&#8221;.<\/li><li>Think of related terms &#8211; for example, I could look for &#8220;river statistics &#8220;instead of just &#8220;depth&#8221;, since the depth figures are likely to be included with all sorts of river stats.<\/li><li>Guess what words might be on the page that would contain the info you seek. For example, a page with information on the depth of rivers near Macon might also have statistics, boating, watersports, middle Georgia [instead of JUST Macon], etc.<\/li><li>Use a different search engine &#8211; Google does NOT cover the entire web. <ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bing.com<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duckduckgo.com\" target=\"_blank\">DuckDuckGo.com<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.MetaCrawler.com\" target=\"_blank\">MetaCrawler.com<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Step Four: REALLY learn how to search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is going to be the next article in this series. Watch for it &#8211; or go ahead and add your email to the list [<em>it&#8217;s the Subscribe or &#8220;Email me!&#8221;  box on either side up top<\/em>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of your web search should be to find the info you seek in one search. Yes, ONE. Is that possible? YES! Step one: THINK A) Figure out EXACTLY what you are looking for. Don&#8217;t be general [&#8220;I want to know about rivers nearby&#8221;], be as specific as you can [&#8220;I want to know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=1626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Web Search &#8211; Take the Time to Get Good at it!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,38,30,28],"tags":[581,295,6,68],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essentials","category-google-more","category-more","category-student-devices","tag-bing","tag-find","tag-google","tag-search"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42ogX-qe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1629,"url":"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=1629","url_meta":{"origin":1626,"position":0},"title":"Web Search, part 2 &#8211; Take the Time to Get Good at it!","author":"Tom Rule","date":"02\/21\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"In Part 1, we looked at how to THINK before you start searching. 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