Ann, you mentioned something, and I'm curious about it. On the BN, isn't the "http" built in? I never even have to enter "www". It's like when I first made google my homepage, I just typed googlecom.
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: Ann Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:18:04 -0400 >Subject: re: [Braillenote] how to find information >Hi all, >Brenda, Google is a "search engine". Its purpose is to help you find >information on the Net. What the computers at Google do is search >through hundreds of thousands of web pages to find messages or >documents that have the words in them which you have requested. this >is the simple answer. The difficulty comes in knowing how to search, >what to ask for. There are tutorials available on this, but simple >searches are not hard. Suppose you wanted to search for computer >games for the blind. You go to: >http://www.google.com >In the edit box you type: >games+blind+computers >Then you press 'enter' on the search button. Google will come up with >a page where there will be several links to various gaming sites for >the blind. >You should try it. It's actually kind of fun. You can, if you get >really good write complicated statements to search for one thing and >not another and so on. But this should get you started. >Ann P. >-- > Ann K. Parsons >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp >"All that is gold does not glitter. >Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
