Mining the Web

Searching starts with reverse engineering. Ask yourself:

What do I want to find?

Where is the best place to start my search? (search engines, directories and meta search engines)

Places to search include:

Once you have done this you are ready to search. Now it's time to:

visualize the information you want to find

build a list of keywords, adding keywords to refine your search

use advanced search tools to limit searches

Boolean searching options typically include:+/-
and
or
near
not