Introduction to Internet Searching with Patrick Crispen is a movie-based tutorial designed for both novice and experienced Internet users who want to quickly and easily use the Internet to find relevant web pages, news articles, pictures, and other resources. Easy-to-follow, real world examples show you how to effectively use most of the Internet\'s popular search engines and directories. This tutorial begins with a quick review of basic search strategies and moves on to cover topics such as advanced Google search operators, other search tools, evaluating web resources for relevance and accuracy, and even simple search engine optimization.

Table of contents

Introduction
interview 2:43 12.4 MB
welcome 0:51 4.2 MB
1. Overview
how directories work 9:09 19.1 MB
how search engines work 5:33 7.0 MB
choosing the right tool 5:47 9.6 MB
2. Basic Search Strategies
importance of top 10 hits 5:22 11.1 MB
quotes 5:51 9.5 MB
plusses 3:31 5.1 MB
minuses 4:26 8.7 MB
combining terms 4:41 7.0 MB
boolean operators 5:21 8.7 MB
3. Google Basics
a tour of Google 18:21 27.4 MB
Google search 6:48 13.1 MB
advanced search 6:39 9.1 MB
preferences 5:54 10.0 MB
language tool 4:57 10.0 MB
Google labs 1:41 3.5 MB
Google help 3:40 7.1 MB
4. Advanced Google
how Google really works 6:55 8.7 MB
bypassing 10 keyword limit 4:35 6.4 MB
synonym and numrange searches 3:55 5.4 MB
filetype searches 5:14 7.8 MB
title searches 4:40 8.0 MB
URL searches 2:20 2.7 MB
site searches 5:25 9.0 MB
cache searches 4:59 8.6 MB
link searches 2:42 3.7 MB
related searches 4:15 7.3 MB
phonebook searches 4:15 8.5 MB
stock reports 2:53 6.0 MB
Google calculator 3:48 7.8 MB
dictionary definitions 1:48 2.1 MB
5. Other Directories and Search Engines
Yahoo and Yahoo search 10:50 20.2 MB
Alltheweb 4:27 8.2 MB
AOL search 3:29 6.6 MB
MSN search 5:39 9.5 MB
A9 5:21 9.0 MB
Open Directory project 3:52 8.6 MB
metacrawler searches 4:32 9.3 MB
more info 1:24 2.8 MB
6. Other Search Tools
six steps 3:38 4.5 MB
example 10:16 17.6 MB
image searches 10:48 19.4 MB
people searches 7:54 13.7 MB
toolbars and deskbars 10:44 17.9 MB
cleaning up 4:26 7.8 MB
7. Evaluating Web Resources
evaluating web pages 11:58 26.4 MB
information competence 4:12 7.1 MB
8. Introduction to Search Engine Optimization
search engine optimization 12:34 18.5 MB
meta tags 8:06 14.2 MB
adding a searchbox 5:46 11.2 MB
Conclusion
goodbye 0:47 3.7 MB

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