I think we actually need a tutorial on search. I'm not kidding either. Most
people seem incapable of effectively utilising search to locate information.
I myself find at times new features that I've never used before that can
really help in locating information.
Just to give you an example. If you try searching for particular products or
type of content it is often available in certain regions or on certain
domains.
Knowing that you can use certain words to limit the scope of your search can
reduce the amount of work it takes (or make it possible to find certain
items/info in the first place).
For example:
1. Go to Google and search for a movie
2. Note what types of sites come up
3. Now if you are looking for sites which are compatible with your operating
system, or a particular movie, there are certain domains which you can tell
the search engine to search in order to limit the results.
Try searching for: Revolution OS (this may be a bad example)
Then try searching for:
Revolution OS site:.eu
or
Revolution OS site:.co.uk
Chances are better you will find a company which has the rights to stream
this film rather than a review site. This is probably a bad example because
of the nature of the film and lack of copyright enforcement / and or
licensing.
There are also even more features though which can be handy similar to this.
Lets say I want to search for video content and want to limit the results to
sites which have ogg theora/and or html5 content due to those being the
supported formats in my freedom friendly browser. How would you do that?
First- find out what sites are freedom friendly. A quick search appears to
result in a few: http://www.thevideobay.org/, http://www.dailymotion.com/,
and http://www.youtube.com/ so what I enter into the search is:
revolution os search site:dailymotion.com OR site:youtube.com OR
site:thevideobay.org
Now the results will only be from sites which offer the content compatible
with my free software system.
There are lots of good examples where this would be useful in locating
specific content. Maybe that gave me a lot of unrelated results to the movie
I was looking for.
So lets add quotes to it in order to limit the results to the exact phrase
"revolution os".
For example:
"revolution os" search site:dailymotion.com OR site:youtube.com OR
site:thevideobay.org
