According to a recent Microsoft study, people on an average spend 11 minutes on a typical Internet search. It could be due to a variety of reasons -
· Not knowing exactly what it is that they are searching for,
· Trawling through giga-bytes of irrelevant data that is generated as the result of a key-word search,
being just two of many reasons.
It makes sense to create a search strategy for optimizing Internet search results and to decrease the amount of time spent in looking for what you want. Optimization can be done in two ways -
· Using several search engines to synergistically arrive at your results
· Utilizing one search engine efficiently
I have outlined three websites, that could help you to meet your search needs in an efficient manner. Most of this information is freely available on the Internet, and detailed understanding is just a click away.
http://www.blogger.com/www.vivisimo.com - This is an Internet clustering search engine, wherein your searches are aggregated based on content groups. This tool works best, when a person is unsure of what sort of information or key-word search would lead him or her to the desired results. Ideally vivisimo.com would throw up results that can then be fine-tuned using focussed key-word search via http://www.blogger.com/www.google.com or http://www.blogger.com/www.yahoo.com
http://www.blogger.com/www.Answers.com - This is an interesting website that trawls through around 100 reference databases to arrive at a set of results that will usually give a relevant set of search results to any questions or keywords that you may choose to enter. In addition, the predictive technology feature can help you choose from a variety of options as you type out your query.
http://www.blogger.com/www.google.com - This is used across industry due to several path-breaking innovations in search. I have attached a set of Google tips that may come in handy during a search. Use http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en as the URL for utilizing the interesting Google Suggest feature, an excellent predictive text search facilitator within Google within the Google.com website.
For more Google secrets, visit http://www.google.com/help/operators.html.
