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Searching the Internet

How to find things on Internet is probably the most frequent user question.

Asking a couple of staff what they do when looking for information on the web. This is list of favorite resources from their point of view.

- "I use Internet all the time. I use it for checking spelling and linguistic conventions and so forth. Since I'm Swedish I need the language facilities which my favourite Search Engine Evreka has. It's an offspring of Altavista which used to be my allround helper. Other places I go for downloads or info is download.com - and of course the Microsoft site. Macromedia gives many good related links. A useful trick, if you want information on a specific company, try adding .com after the company name. You might have to try different additional things like use an underscore instead of a space and so on" - Kent

- "Usually I just use AltaVista as it is simple and fast. Recently I have started to use AllTheWeb as it is very fast and has more pages indexed than any other search engine. The best search trick is to use more than one search word using the plus sign, (+keyword1 +keyword2) in order to get a more narrow search or to use an exact phrase with quotation marks around it. ("search engines"). - Larry

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