The Benefit of using search engines to find photography information

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8 June 2009

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This article was written as a result of a research that led me to discover that whilst the internet is second nature to most users there are still millions of people who are interested in photography and not well versed with using the web as a research tool.

The web has made it easy to find content about photography quickly. Just a few years back you needed to take the whole morning at the library skimming through hundreds of books.

Now you can do it in less than five minutes. You can simply enter a search query and just like that you have a huge categorized and highly relevant list to choose from about photography or specific topics of the same subject.

It is possible to waste time trying to find that perfect page within the hundreds of pages that search engines present.

Below I present some of the most useful operators you can use in order to make your search effective. My aim is not to flood you with too much information that you can’t use but I simply want to provide exactly what you need without wasting your time. To some this may be just a refresher “course” but I still do encourage you to read on.

Currently the most popular search engine is Google so the tips are more focused on Google.com but you can use them on Yahoo.com.

Use of commas in your search query can help you narrow you search to the pages with the exact information you want. For instance to find a college course about photography, just type in “photography courses”, For a career search on this topic just type “photography careers”. The retuned pages will be those that have the exact wording you entered in the search.

You can also improve your search by using the “+” operator. For example, entering a terms such as “documentary about photography”+ “photography books” will result in pages that have those keywords appearing in the same page but not necessarily close to each other.

You can enter the word “site:” at the beginning of your search followed by the site name and your keyword.As mentioned earlier this will show results from that particular website only.

By following these tips you should be in a better position to find anything online, whether it is about your internet in – photography or any kind of content you may be interested in like reverse search for cell phone numbers.

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