How to Find ANYTHING on the Internet

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Tips, tricks as well as resources to help we find that digital needle in a huge cyber-haystack.

Learning to navigate a World Wide Web effectively is an critical skill, as well as there a lots of different ways for we to find a information we have been looking for. Whilst a following list of tips as well as websites is by no equates to downright as well as weve missed out a little large topics such as travel, that deserve a post in their own right they should be enough to get your started.

Using Google Operator Hacks

One of a things we love about Google is a clean layout usually type your question as well as hit enter. As well as a modernized poke function, there have been a load of user hacks we can use to labour your poke results. Check out a glorious Google Guide for a full list.

Here is a preference of a little useful ones:

  • salsa -dance will find pages containing salsa though not dance
  • castle ~glossary will find pages containing glossaries as well as terminology associated to castle
  • define:matador will move up definitions of a word matador
  • ~crocodile will poke for a word crocodile as well as similar words
  • lon sfo to book flights from London to San Francisco
  • delta flight 5778 to check a status of this flight
  • what time is it in New York to find out a time in this city
  • love site:www.matadornetwork.com/life to poke usually Matador Life for a word love
  • love -site:www.matadornetwork.com/life to bar Matador Life formula from your poke for love

And dont dont think about if we want to visit a site that is down, or that your companys server wont let we access, we can vie! w a Cach ed version to see a Google snapshot of that page from when it was final crawled.

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Finally, if youre fed up with all a annoying affiliate links clogging up a Google poke results, check out Give Me Back My Google.

Online Research

Conducting online investigate is about some-more than usually typing a couple of words into Google, even if we do know a user hacks! There have been a lot of resources out there to help you. Heres how to find:

Biblical text: Find specific text from a Bible during BibleGateway.

Bibliography formatting: Ive been regulating Easybib since my ninth-grade English teacher suggested it. Even if we know your style formatting from memory, this makes citing sources much easier with a present ISBN lookup feature.

Books Online: Google Books has a startling series of giveaway books available online, as well as includes poke facilities that have been great for research. Its additionally worth checking out Project Gutenberg, that has openly available digital copies of over 33,000 previously published titles.

Court Cases: LexisNexis has quite a couple of cases available for free.

Etymology: Find a root of any word during Etymoline.

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Human Sources: Help a Reporter Out (HARO) is a use that lets we connect with people around a world who can give we information or quotes upon topics we have been researching.

Newspapers: Newspapers dating behind hundreds of years have been available during a Google News Archives, though we can additionally use LexisNexis if youve got a subscription or can log ! upon via a university network.

Primary Materials from Around a World: The UNESCO World Digital Library is a digital collection of significant primary materials from countries as well as cultures around a world.

Scholarly Sources: Google Scholar is a collection of thousands of investigate articles. Other good resources include a JSTOR database, as well as a glorious paid service, Questia.

And if we want to daub into a digital brain of a Internet, use a twitter poke feature as well as check out a many renouned Google Insight stats to see what a online population have been thinking about.

Note: If we have been meddlesome in guidance some-more about investigate techniques as well as resources, a MatdorU New Media School has a Pro Module upon How to Do Desk Research.


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