The first way to find plural information
Greetings, dear readers! In this article, we will look at various ways to efficiently and quickly surf the Internet. There is a lot of information on the World Wide Web on all sorts of topics.
For this reason, the search can become more difficult. With the use of certain methods, it can be alleviated. What are the rules for making a request?
How to enter in the search bar exactly the phrase that will give you the most accurate information?
Sometimes the search engine does not find any information at all. Consider the simple rules for successful information retrieval.
When a search engine gives a large number of links to resources, you need to write your query in more detail and in more detail. With a huge number of options for search results, this will help to highlight exactly what you need.
If no matches were found in the search results at all, then simplify the initial search phrase. Although in practice it can be problematic to choose the right way to search for information.
There are two types of searching for information on the Internet.
1. Search for information in the singular
For example, here you can include a query like this: “Which city is the capital of Portugal?” To get an answer to it, enter in your request: the capital of Portugal (it does not matter for the search engine whether you enter a capital or lowercase letter in the word - Portugal, which you can easily check if you wish). We press the Enter key, we get the answer:
Rice. 1 Search for information in the singular
The search results presented in fig. 1 may differ depending on the search engine and browser you have chosen.
Or like this: “What was the name of the writer Chekhov?” To get an answer, you can slightly change the request, for example, enter in the browser: the name of the patronymic of the writer Chekhov, after which the search engine issues answers.
Another option: "In what year were the first Olympic Games held?" You can simplify and enter the following query in the browser: the date of the first Olympic Games.
In this case, we find any specific information. For example, it can be in the form of a name, a date, or a number.
2. Finding plural information
An example of such a method of information retrieval is a query of the following form: "Which sports nutrition stores are located in the city of Minsk?". If you wish, you can simplify it and enter the following query: sports nutrition stores Minsk. As we can see, in the proposed version, we already need to find not one piece of information, but several (2 or more sports nutrition stores).
These methods differ in that in the first of them the search result will be located on a specific page of one website, and in the second - on different pages of several websites.
Let's look at specific examples. First, consider the case of searching for information in the singular.
For example, you need to find out the place and date of birth of Pushkin. What phrase should be entered in the search field of the Yandex or Google system? Most likely, those users who are not familiar with effective methods of searching for information on the Internet will enter the following option: "Pushkin's place and date of birth." As a result, we get that on one web page we find out only the place of his birth, and on the other - the date.
The first way to find plural information
But our goal is to find complete information on one single web page. Let's rephrase our search phrase into another option: "Pushkin was born." In the very first search links, we find out when and where this greatest Russian poet was born. You don't even need to follow links to other sites. The information we need will be on the main web page of the search engine.
Rice. 2 Plural information search example
The search results presented in fig. 2 may differ depending on the search engine and browser you have chosen.
This way of searching for information will not only save you time, but also Internet traffic. Due to such a property of search engines as relevance, the search results display the closest documents on a given topic, which simplifies the search and saves the Internet user's time.
2nd way to search for plural information
To use this method, you need to understand that the initial data may fall on different areas. To find a more accurate option, enter as many names for them in the search phrase as possible. For this, separate words or phrases are used.
For example, let's enter the following query: "Purchase, washing machine, LG, white color, Perm". Thus, information about the purchase of a white LG washing machine in the city of Perm will be found. You may notice that all the search words of this query are in the singular and the nominative case. This is necessary so that exactly what you need is displayed in the search results.
You can use other cases, declensions and numbers of the Russian language, but in this case you can enclose the search words in quotation marks. This technique will lead to the fact that the search results will be specific, that is, exactly in the form in which they were specified in quotes.
A query enclosed in quotation marks is a signal for the search engine to search for an exact match to this query, that is, the most relevant one.
Thank you for your attention, friends. We got acquainted with 3 ways to search for information:
- searching for information in the singular,
- searching for plural information,
- use of quotation marks.
And in order for this theoretical information to benefit you, of course, you should put it into practice. To do this, right now, open it in your browser and type all the queries given in this article, compare the results, analyze, in general, learn how to competently search for information on the Internet. Good luck, love and successful search (surfing) on the World Wide Web!
P.S. You can read more about internet literacy.