“On the face of it you’d think that searching on a modern search engine such as Google is a pretty simple and straightforward skill. And mostly, you’d be right. It’s the exceptions that are interesting. “
Every so often we’ve all had the experience of trying to find something that we ju...
- Thursday, 19 May 2016 12:39
- By AOFIRS .
You’ve put hard work into building your website, but can people find it? Even with top search engine placement, if customers aren’t searching for your business’s product or service, they may not be able to find you. For today’s businesses, the best way to get the word out is to find those po...
- Thursday, 19 May 2016 12:02
- By Martin Grossner
As Google increasingly incorporates direct answers and other types of featured snippets into search results pages, columnist Andrew Shotland points out that businesses may want to get smarter about marking up their pages.
I have been noticing a lot of Google Answer Boxes showing up for queries with...
- Thursday, 19 May 2016 10:39
- By Jay Harris
The use of Internet to aid research practice has become more popular in the recent years. In fact, some believe that Internet surveying and electronic data collection may revolutionize many disciplines by allowing for easier data collection, larger samples, and therefore more representative data. Ho...
- Thursday, 19 May 2016 10:12
- By Clara Johnson
We might be using the “Deep Web” every day without calling it this way or even being aware of its existence. Simply filling in a web form enables us to access the Deep Web and retrieve data from a variety of databases, some of which are free, subscription-based or have major access costs attache...
- Thursday, 19 May 2016 04:13
- By Clara Johnson
The following are a few of the techniques and tools I use to make my Google searching more effective or more productive.
Synonym Searching
Google has a limit of 10 words per search [since expanded to 32], which can make it difficult to include all the possible variations on a word. For example, a ...
- Thursday, 19 May 2016 04:02
- By David J. Redcliff
Several weeks ago, a legal advocacy group issued a press release, which informed about the organization's efforts on behalf of teenage girls who had been abused in a detention center. It referred readers to a redacted document on its Web site for more information.
As the mother of a teenage girl, i...
- Thursday, 19 May 2016 03:51
- By Barbara Larson
As repositories of our collective knowledge, libraries and the Internet host our cultural heritage, the memory of our present and past civilizations. Admittedly, though, the cornucopia of information accessible via the Internet and archived in libraries can be overwhelming, particularly if you are j...
- Thursday, 19 May 2016 03:36
- By Wushe Zhiyang
Google Maps has conquered the great outdoors. Its Project Tango is an effort to do something even more ambitious for indoor location and other physical spaces. Tango goes beyond 2-D mapping and extends into the creation of 3-D imagery, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR).
Tango is a way...
- Thursday, 19 May 2016 03:08
- By Mary Sacco
Today’s businesses run on apps. From the customer relationship management (CRM) software they use to track contacts to the inventory management tools they use to track merchandise. The right tools can mean the difference between success and failure for a growing business, especially if its leaders...
- Thursday, 19 May 2016 02:50
- By Eric Beaudoin
