How do you use google?

Discussion in 'General Martial Arts Discussion' started by Shortfuse, May 30, 2004.

  1. Shortfuse

    Shortfuse King of Hearts

    i know this may be a stupid question but many times i have heard that you shouldnt turn to this site first to answer simple questions, but rather search it and try to find the answer on the rest of the net but, when i try and do that i have to go a great deal of trouble to find any good info because i have forgotten how to search on google or anything else.

    Should you put it in question form?
    use only key words?
    be unnessecarily specific?
    be really vague?
    should you take the question apart?
    should there be a specific length inwhich what you're typing in should be?

    what i would do when i become frustrated is go to the 10th page and it seems they put the crappy info first and put the more specific results towards the end.
     
  2. YODA

    YODA The Woofing Admin Supporter

    Start general and then refine
    Practice
    See what works
    Practice some more

    A bit like MA really :D
     
  3. Cain

    Cain New Member

  4. JohnnyX

    JohnnyX Map Addict

    I use my good old friend Mr Google quite a bit.

    Use of quotes usually narrows it down. :cool:

    Cheers. :)
     
  5. toothpaste100

    toothpaste100 Banned In 60 Seconds

    All you need to use is quotation marks and addition signs to narrow your search down.
     
  6. StorDuff

    StorDuff adamantium

    Shortfuse: Google it! :eek:
     
  7. Nrv4evr

    Nrv4evr New Member

    they invented a library i believe in the medieval ages, shortfuse... :D

    but if you really want to use google, try actually asking the question. ex: what is the point of my life?

    you actually get some useful info, if that can be said for the web.
     
  8. toothpaste100

    toothpaste100 Banned In 60 Seconds

    Your off by over 1000 years :p
     
  9. shootodog

    shootodog restless native

    there were libraries during the time of alex the great. as far back as the arkadians and the sumarians and the babylonians they had these.


    that wouldn't be google. that would be more for www.ask.com :D

    btw, to those who know how to use google, there are other great search engines out there that use clustering. i like to go with iboogie or vivisimo.
     
    Last edited: May 31, 2004
  10. x1000

    x1000 New Member

    Dosen't it depend on what you are searching for that you use other search engines :confused:
     

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