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    Deep Search: How to Explore the Internet More Effectively
    Deep Search: How to Explore the Internet More Effectively
    Deep Search: How to Explore the Internet More Effectively
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    Deep Search: How to Explore the Internet More Effectively

    By Alan Pearce

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    About this ebook

    Find what you’re looking for in a fraction of the time. This enlightening and easy interactive ebook will improve your search skills; cutting the time you spend trawling the Web for whatever you want.

    Learn how to get the best out of Google and the other search engines. Discover ‘unknown’ databases and archives.

    Knowing Where to search if often more important than knowing How to search. This book shows both. With active links to the Internet’s most useful search tools.

    Discover how to search the Deep Web for documents, images, videos and forgotten gems of all kinds.

    Learn how to mask your identity and research ‘sensitive’ subjects without giving away who you are or where you are.

    The perfect tool for anyone who seriously needs to search the Internet – journalists, students, researchers, law enforcement and librarians.

    Covers People Search, Social Media, Art, Science, Engineering and Country Searches, and much more.

    By the author of “Deep Web for Journalists: Comms, Counter-Surveillance, Search”.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlan Pearce
    Release dateFeb 3, 2016
    ISBN9781310967580
    Deep Search: How to Explore the Internet More Effectively
    Author

    Alan Pearce

    Alan Pearce is a journalist, broadcaster, former BBC correspondent, and author of several books. He has contributed to numerous publications, from Time Magazine to The Sunday Times of London. He lives in Nouvelle Aquitaine, France.

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      Good info and will be a good reference for searching
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      The author was very informative about tools to search the web and gave lots of sources for reference.

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    Deep Search - Alan Pearce

    Deep Search

    How to Explore the Internet More Effectively

    By Alan Pearce

    *

    Published by Deep Web Guides at Smashwords

    Copyright Alan Pearce 2016

    ISBN: 9781310967580

    v 7:0

    books@alanpearce.com

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    How to Search

    Getting the Most out of Search Engines

    File Search

    Where to Search

    Search Engines – How they Work

    Google Alternatives

    Deep Web Search

    Metasearch Engines

    Database Search

    Repositories and Gateways

    Open Directories

    User-Edited Directories

    Secret Searching

    Browsers

    Safe Search Engines

    Cloaking

    The Tor Hidden Network

    Search Sources

    People Search

    Social Network Search

    Paid-for Search Services

    Business Search

    Economic Search

    Science and Engineering Search

    Art Search

    Image and Media Search

    Miscellaneous Search

    Search Sources by Country

    Africa

    America; North, Central, South

    Caribbean

    Europe

    Middle East and Asia

    Oceania

    Introduction

    Everybody thinks they know how to search the Internet. After all, we do it dozens of times a day.

    But few people know how to get the best out of the search engines.

    Even fewer are aware that there are often better places to look.

    And that’s what this book is about: how to search more effectively.

    How to Search

    To search the Internet effectively you need to know where to look, how to phrase your question and how to refine the search, so it helps to understand the main types of search service out there and how they work.

    As obvious as it might seem, Web searching is a matter of selecting the right words and devising a strategy to find what you are looking for.

    Unfortunately, not all search engines use the same rules but it helps to understand the basic way most engines work. Google, for example, uses Boolean logic, as do many of the popular engines. The examples below show how to refine any search and will work for most engines.

    Getting the Most out of Search Engines

    Phrase Search — by putting double quotes ( ) around a set of words, a Boolean engine knows to consider the exact words

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