Feeding the Search Engine

[billroper]

I appear to have a talent for locating the information that I need using search engines.

This has two components. First, you need to be able to make a reasonable guess as to which keywords will pull up a useful collection of pages for what you're looking for. Second, the ability to scan really, really quickly as you look at the linked pages and discard the failures means that you find what you're looking for in a short period of time.

If the first set of pages are a failure, see if anything that you gleaned from them helps you produce a better set of keywords for the next search. Lather, rinse, and repeat until you've gotten what you need.

Comments

[tigertoy]

I feel like this describes how I try to find things, but my success rate is frustratingly low. I don't know if I'm terrible at choosing keywords, or if I'm searching for things that are too outside of the target normal.