From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([144.92.166.194]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FbeEY-0001gh-00 for ; Thu, 04 May 2006 09:51:10 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8015B740F0 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 08:50:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13067-08 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 08:50:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mailhost.math.wisc.edu (lcyoung.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.90]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC363740E7 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 08:50:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: from yoda.math.wisc.edu (yoda.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.12]) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E779100451 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 08:50:38 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.2.20060504084117.01a8d630@mailhost.math.wisc.edu> X-Sender: jheim@mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.0.6 Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 08:50:36 -0500 To: speakup From: John Heim Subject: googling tips? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-UWMath-MailScanner: amavisd-new at math.wisc.edu X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 13:51:11 -0000 I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in sharing googling tips. For instance, when I'm trying to use a tool I've never used before, I google for "tutorial OR howto ". For example, this weekend, I was trying to figure out rsync, so I googled for "tutorial OR howto rsync". Note that the "OR" is in capitals. That tells google to use it as a logical operator rather than as a search term. So google will look for documents with either 'tutorial' or 'howto' and the word 'rsync'. But I'm thinking other people might have little tricks they use to find stuff on google. Actually, another great tip is just to use google. I always google before asking a question here. First of all, it saves time for the readers of this list. But secondly, you often get more complete answers via google. People have taken the time to document a lot of these things because of google. In other words, people create docs so that other people can find them with google. Naturally, those documents tend to be more complete than what someone would type in in response to an email question.