what can I do to learn to make more effective internet searchs?

[Brett D]

- when it comes to internet searches I don't do that well

[avip]

google.com is one of the best search engines. Use it.

to find specific topic e.g.
1. details about volcano type "volcano" including " " marks in google search bar.
2. to find pics of volcano type "volcano" in the image option of the google search bar.
3. to find details of volacano in a particular site say wikipaedia.com, type volcano site:wikipaedia.com in the google search bar.

apply and enjoy. or e-mail me : avip@sify.com

[Sunrise]

http://swagbucks.com/
Search With swagbucks.com and Redeem Exclusive Prizes at the Swag Store, Just by searching the web.

http://www.searchme.com/
Search for information, videos, music, images, news and more, and find the most relevant results displayed in a comprehensive blend of multimedia and standard web pages.

http://scour.com/
Search socially and get the most from your favorite search engine!
Scour is a new search engine working to evolve search and deliver a much greater value to the User.

http://outside.in/
Outside.in’s hyperlocal news and content bring the power of hyperlocal to major media partners and bloggers in every market in the United States.
Tracking news, views, and conversations in 35,312 towns and neighborhoods

http://beta.spezify.com/
Use Spezify to:
* Get an overview or new ideas of a subject.
* Find useful information.
* Be inspired.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/
StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of millions other websurfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like automatically shares them with like-minded people and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend.

http://faves.com/
Every day you don’t use Faves you’re missing out on great web sites about your favorite topics.
Faves is a site about websites that are rated and organized by real people into a wide variety of topics. Our community is finding new web sites every day.
So everyday you don’t use Faves you’re missing out on great websites about your favorite topics.

http://www.streakr.com/
* Discover cool websites, video, pictures and people and loads of other stuff you didn’t know existed.
* You find it. You rate it. The Streakr Discovery Bar finds more of it – the stuff that you like that is… Now go ahead and download it!
* Meet. Share. Discuss. There’s a whole community of like-minded Streakrs out there, just waiting to be like-minded with you.

http://yuxt.com/
Yuxt is Social Video Bookmarking.
Is is the easiest way to bookmark, organize into collections, share and watch video from numerious websites.

http://www.bemba.com/
Bemba.com is a great place to start surfing the web. You can explore all the websites, videos, blog posts and other web content that people have recently recommended to friends, neatly organized in 14 categories. Sign up, add the Bemba button to your browser and start sharing with Bemba too!

http://www.wisestart.co.uk/

http://www.videosurf.com/
Using a unique combination of new computer vision and fast computation methods, VideoSurf has taught computers to “see” inside videos to find content in a fast, efficient, and scalable way. Basing its search on visual identification, rather than text only, VideoSurf’s computer vision video search engine provides more relevant results and a better experience to let users find and discover the videos they really want to watch.

http://www.evri.com/
Evri helps users discover related content without searching again. Evri's technology automates connections between Web content by applying a more human-like understanding of the words on the page.

http://www.symbaloo.com/
Symbaloo if for people that looking for a simple way to search the internet. Users can easily find information about: traveling, phone numbers, translations, flight tickets, recopies, traffic, music, TV, medical, movies, weather, and many other useful things that users look for on their daily internet session. Now it is accessible within a single click.Also, users can add their own content links to Symbaloo, such as: blog feeds, news pages, media services, etc.

http://www.searchmash.com/
Search engine wite benefits. Check out searchmash features page from time to time to see what has changed.

http://quintura.com/
Quintura is the next-generation web search with a mission to make Web search easier and faster by adding context or meaning to keywords and visualizing search.
http://www.irazoo.com/

iRazoo is a user recommended, points driven, search engine. The benefits for using iRazoo:- You get excellent search results.- You get to help further refine iRazoo excellent search results for others as well as benefit from other's refined search results.- You get points for each search you preform, each website you recommend/not recommend, and each referral you make.- Best of all, you get to exchange your points for fantastic prizes.

[bahrtasai]

If you use Mozilla Firefox go to addons.mozilla.org and download "search cloudlet". it creates a cloud of keywords related to your search in google, yahoo and twitter. There's also a whole list of google hacks, like was mentioned earlier,("", site:, etc. go to google and search for google hacks.