Also, if you want to search with in a topic, you just have to click on the
search with in results button and type in another thing, it will narrow down
the results. You can keep doing that till you get a manageable results.
Also, if you put things in quotes, it will know to search for that idem
together.
Sarai and Rosie, Proverbs 3:5,6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 6:18 AM
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.
>
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> "All that is gold does not glitter.
> Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
>
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