SEARCH TIPS


The following are a few tips on searching the internet which can save you time.

Tip 1

Most hits

tomatoes
tomato diseases
bacterial canker
Least hits
Tip 2
If looking for a company, you can also take a guess about their address. Many companies have the following address format.
 
www.(company name).com (mostly USA sites)
www.(company name).com.au (Australian sites)

Click in the Address or Location slot on your browser and type in as above. You do not need to enter http. Then press ENTER.

eg www.Elders.com.au
www.serve-ag.com.au
 

Many of the sites outside USA use country codes on the end of their internet address.

au

Australia
ee

Estonia
kr

Korea
ru

Russia
br

Brazil
fi

Finland
nl

Netherlands
za

South Africa
by

Belarus
fr

France
nz

New Zealand
ch

Switzland
be

Belgium
de

Germany
pe

Peru
th

Thailand
ca

Canada
hu

Hungary
pl

Poland
ua

Ukraine
cz

Czech Republic
il

Israel
ro

Romania
uk

United Kingdom
Tip 3

If the site you choose is the right topic but the wrong information look to see whether it has any link pages.

Tip 4

Sometimes a search comes up with a lot of hits on one topic which clutters up the list. For example, if searching for information on tomatoes there is usually a lot of recipes listed. To exclude these use the advanced search options such as used with the Altavista search engine. Logical operators such as AND and NOT are very useful. To search for tomatoes excluding recipes this would be:

tomatoes NOT recipes

In a normal search if there are two names such as 'tomato diseases' then the search egine will look for both together and each separately. If you only want both together enter:

tomatoes AND diseases