Interesting TurkeyDay-Tidbits on web-searching, the ultimate search>
First as a researcher, then a surfer, I found this very useful as part of my search-arsenal for the web browsing.
If this is way-novice, excuse the 101-surfer material! <gg>
A little background on XML>
When doing a web search, you can get hundreds of thousands of hits that are totally irrelevant to your query. Your search engine, which deals only with literal strings of text, doesn't know the context of the text. But if your hits are pages created with (XML), there's a
high chance they'll be on the mark. That's because those documents have context programmed in, making Web searches and data gathering more specific.
To do that effectively, documents have to be tagged. Tags are attributes assigned to a piece of information. Think of document-tags as rules of grammar, customized to each document, that dictate use of the document tags.
When using an identifier <?>
Here's an example of what is needed before entering the subject you are looking for:
Say for example you are looking for Internet-Telephony related articles but only those articles found in telecomunication magazines. You would use - internet telephony - as always for the search, but enter it this way on the search space:
<magazine>internet telephony<magazine>, this should narrow your search quite a bit.
The same with a search for authors, <author>charles dickens<author>.
Well, maybe you won't get all the right stuff, but you will be heading off allot of trash before it even gets to you!
Try a tag yourself here with applying your favorite web site: siteowner.linkexchange.com
Before today, I wasn't inserting the "arrow" <?> symbols, it is a definite help. Yea, I know that sounds to basic, but I didn't know it!! duh! <smile>
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