Tips to improve your web searches
January 13, 2009 by Phil Montero
In my last blog post I explained how to use Google Alerts to automate your most common web searches and have Google deliver pertinent information directly to your inbox. However the sad truth is that most people don’t know some of the basic techniques and strategies for searching the web effectively and narrowing down the often thousands of search results to key in on the specific information they want.
If you are like many people you take a shotgun approach to searching the web by typing in a few simple words and then wasting time weeding though pages and pages of results looking for the articles or websites that contain the information you are looking for.
I recently discovered a great series of web videos called The Common Craft Show. There website features a series of short explanatory videos that explain often complex topics in plain English. They use an innovative and entertaining video/animation style they call “paperworks” and publish a new video about once a month.
The video here features their easy to understand explanation of how to search the web more effectively. Watch this short video and improve your web searches today!
