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November 03, 2006
Catherine's Tips and Tricks!
When searching for IT related articles, I start with what I am most familiar using: Google. Google is very user-friendly, but very general in its search. To narrow my searches, I often use quotes and associated words. However, in addition to using quotes, Google offers separate search engines to limit your search even further. For example, blogsearch.google.com will limit your search to blogs.
Aside from Google, I find it helpful to use websites that depend on user participation. For example, Slashdot lists article summaries that are written by its own readers and can easily direct you to an article of interest if you want to read the entire article. Del.icio.us and Digg are also helpful search tools. Users login and store links on their accounts. The more times a link is stored by various users, the more likely it is to show on the front page of popular links. These sites are helpful because people usually store sites on what they are most familiar with. Therefore, users familiar with IT may store IT related information in their Del.icio.us and Digg accounts where I can then see what they stored and be directed to these sites. So far, I have not been to many of the sites that Del.icio.us and Digg users have directed me to which reassures me that these search tools are necessary. They reduce the likelihood of overlooking useful sites using Google due to my inexpertise.
Posted by catchao at November 3, 2006 01:04 PM