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Youre entitled to a better Web search
Heres a tip to make your online experience better.
Suppose your pet aardvark is sick and you want to know how to help it get better. So
you type aardvark into a search engine on the Web
and you get 659,157 matches,
including 1,450 cooking sites. You need to narrow your search to sites that are serious
about aardvarks.
Enter title followed by a colon and then your search term. For example, try title:aardvark
and youll get sites with the animal in their title not necessarily in
their URL, but in their official title, like "The Aardvark Page" or "The
Care of Pet Aardvarks". Using the title prefix increases the likelihood that
the sites found by a search engine really have to do with the subject.
This trick works for several search engines like Yahoo,
HotBot, AltaVista and InfoSeek,
though with Yahoo you can also just use the letter t with a colon, as in t:aardvark.
Free *Cheap Trick* of the Week:
February 7, 2000 |