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November 04, 2006
Alyse's Tips and Tricks!
Every day or two, I have been tagging articles online about Microsoft Vista on del.icio.us. Although there is a large amount of information on Vista available on the Internet, finding articles, blogs, reviews, etc. that are high quality and up-to-date is slightly more difficult. My favorite way to find information is to keep it simple: www.google.com. However, there are some of the other, more advanced search tools that have proven quite helpful.
Using Google Scholar, I was able to find detailed research reports from reliable sources, such as the article Windows Vista Network Attack Surface Analysis: A Broad Overview. Doing a cached search on long webpages like this one is a good idea, since it can be hard to pick out the Vista information in these detailed and often lengthy webpages.
Another website I use often to find information about Vista is CNet News: Business Tech. Not only does searching for Windows Vista procure a long list of relevant articles, but people can respond directly to the articles. I have found that users’ opinions on the articles can be even more informative than the articles themselves, so I check this site regularly for recently published articles on Vista.
The World News Network is another search site I rely on to tag articles on de.licio.us. When I search for Microsoft Vista using the parameters “All of the Words”, “English”, “Most Relevant First”, and “Last 3 Days”, CNet finds high-quality and up-to-date articles on Vista. Another reason I like this site is because I speak Spanish, so I like to look up articles in Spanish for fun. It’s dorky, I know.
In short, while plain old Google is a fantastic search engine, there are other sites out there that are useful for digging up excellent info and current news about Vista. If you have time, try some of them out!
Posted by alathans at November 4, 2006 02:12 AM