Using the Internet

The Internet is a wonderful place but can also be confusing to those people who have not really used it before.

If you know the name of the web site in question (e.g. www.jobseekersadvice.co.uk)then you can type this into your browser window to be taken there. If you don't know the name of the web site then you need to take advantage of a clever online device called a search engine.

Search engines trawl the web like fishing boats collecting information on the content of the web sites that they come across. This information is then indexed so that when you search for a specific topic or topics, the search engine will look at its index to see if the words you types match words listed in its index.

If they do then the search engine will generate a list of the web sites that matched your search criteria.

One of the best search engines is Google.com Google currently trawls billions of web sites every month. In fact currently its supposed to trawl ever web site, every month. This means that any results you find on Google will be pretty up to date.

You can be more specific about the results you find by enclosing them in speech marks. For example if you types in:

CV advice job seeker interview

Then the web site would bring up any site that had any of the words in them. However. If you were to type:

"CV advice job seeker interview" then the search engines would only submit web sites to you that had every word inside the speech marks listed.

This means that the web sites that you are presented with are more likely to be what you are looking for instead of a news web site that had an interview with a guy who wrestled a cat out of a tree :)

For more information I'd recommend that you visit the site of terry A Gray by clicking here. Terry goes through in more detail how to search the different search engines and the benefits of each.