Many people start their Internet searches with google or yahoo.
 

1. When you do a search on yahoo, the yahoo search engine looks for the exact words that you type in.  It does not look for a general subject.

2. All search engines (including Google) will search more specifically if you type in specific punctuation.  If you simply type in the first and last name of someone you want more about, you will get results for anyone with that first name, and anyone with that last name.  If you type quotation marks around the first and last name like this "George Bush," you will only get results for people with that first and last name.

3.  If you are looking for a subject, and you are using yahoo, it's best to narrow your search first.

4. ( This part is for PCs only, not MACs) After you find a website on the topic that you are interested in, click Control F and the word or phrase that you are looking for.  You will get a dialogue box.  Type the word or phrase you are looking for (when a website is open). Click FIND NEXT.  The computer will find the first example of the word or phrase in the document.  Continue to click FIND NEXT until the end of the document.
 

5. There are different kinds of internet sites .  The ending of the url (web address) tells you what kind of site it is

edu=education
gov=government
org=organization  (non-profits, for example)
com=commercial or business

In Google, if you want to only look for sites in education, for example, type the subject, colon (:) and .edu

Google is very particular.  Do not skip a space after the colon (:), and type a period(.) before edu (or gov, or any other kind of website you are looking for.
 

6.  Try a BOOLEAN SEARCH.  In most major search engines, if you type,

Word A AND Word B, this will narrow your search.  It means that the search engine will look for these two words together.

Word A OR Word B will give you synonyms (similar words) about the same topic.

Word A NOT Word B will give you all of the articles about Word A, except for those about Word B.