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How to Search the Web
Use Web Site Listings
If guessing doesn't work, the next step is to go to a search site.
There are two basic ways to search:
- Web site listings
- Search engines
Web Site Listings
Web site listings are created by people who surf the Web for a living and manually record Web sites. These Web sites are then categorized and subcategorized into a hierarchy of sites. You can browse through these categories and subcategories until you get a listing of Web sites.
Web site listings are useful if you're looking for a site on a fairly general topic, one for which there are hundreds, or even thousands, of Web sites. For example, by using selected listings for a popular topic like "Star Wars" or "Jerry Seinfeld," you will avoid the unofficial and not-very-good sites and find only the best.
Try clicking through this path on Yahoo! You will end up with a listing of Star Wars sites:
Entertainment --> Movies & Film --> Genres --> Science Fiction & Fantasy --> Series --> Star Wars
There you'll find the listing of Star Wars sites, wonderfully organized by subcategories (clubs, books, chats, screenplays, humor, etc.). You'll find the official Star Wars site, sites by Star Wars fans, and more.
You can also access the listings by using a search field. Try typing "Harrison Ford" in the search field below and press Submit to see the Yahoo! listings.
As you see on the top of the Yahoo! page, Harrison Ford is listed under Entertainment --> Actors & Actresses.
Some Web site listings:
In addition to portal sites like Yahoo! that specialize in search engines for the entire World Wide Web, many smaller sites provide a sub-set of the Web, highly filtered for quality and content.
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