Believe it or not, I use search engines ALL DAY. It’s my job. I write Internet content, so I search information and write articles. I suspect I may soon become something of a walking encyclopedia someday. I have written SO many articles, everything! Stuff related to what bed bugs look like, how to reformat your computer, how to choose the best sofa beds, how to make a bunk bed, what kind of insulation is best for basement walls… etc etc etc. I think I’ve written hundreds upon hundreds of articles! Can you imagine all the searching I must do?!
Searching online is something of an art form. Oh sure, you can type in any word or term in the search box and hit enter. Whammo, see what you get. But if you don’t want to sift through scads and scads of irrelevant results and want to cut to the quick of how sofas or parabolic antennas are made, knowing the right search engine technique is crucial. One of my favorites is the “site” search. I often need to search a particular website for information. For example, how to repair the wood of antique sofa. I want to search eHow.com. So I enter in my search engine terms:
repair antique sofa site:.ehow.com
And this is what I get:
Here’s a layman’s quick guide to making searching easier, brought to you by the dudes at Google. It’s a great resource, and I’ll betcha it will cut down all that searching in no time. 
SO next time you are scouring the web with the burning hot question of when Eastlake sofa furniture was constructed or the history of the doorbell, you have the tools at your fingertips! LOL
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