Let's continue or examination of the Search Button. Once you have the insertion point in the text box, we can type our search request. I'm going to use nwtc again, since we used it earlier in our discussions. Here's what it looks like:
Now, to tell the computer and browser and Lycos Search Engine to "execute" the command to search the internet for nwtc...just hit the Go Get It button on the keyboard and we'll see what Lycos finds in our search for nwtc...ready? I'm clicking Go Get It now............
Wow, look at the results...hmmm...this is too easy...or is it? Looks like Lycos can almost "read our minds." Info resources, Events Calendar, another Events Calendar, and yet another Events Calendar...
Also notice, near the bottom of the white part...it says << back - next >> That means that Lycos found more stuff on nwtc too...but we won't click on next now. As a matter of fact, before we click anything, let's just point our mouse pointer at the first item/link that Lycos found...point at (but don't click) NWTC Information Resources.
Yes, there is a method to my madness...well...sometimes! Look before you leap is an old but true saying. Look below before you click on anything...ok?
...the status bar is way down here...
Please observe several, no...make that TWO things...before we click on anything...ok?
1. See the yellow tag (it's called a Meta Tag) with the address ...http://www.nrel.gov/wind/info_res.html? That shows up on my browser when I point at the link NWTC Information Resources with my mouse pointer. After a few seconds...it will go away,
2. Notice on the status bar on the bottom of the browser (where the MSIE Symbol is...see it? It looks like a white sheet of paper, with a small fold on the top right side, with the MSIE blue "E"??) Anyhow, it gives us the same information as the little yellow tag...the URL of the web page that Lycos found for us in our search for nwtc...http://www.nrel.gov/wind/info_res.html Neat huh?
Do you recognize anything different about the URL that Lycos found and the REAL URL of nwtc? If you recall, nwtc's URL is something like...http://www.nwtc.tec.wi.us...isn't it? Hmmm...so what's the problem???
Watch what happens when I click on the link NWTC Information Resources...you may be surprised...
We "asked" Lycos to find web pages for nwtc
and, of course, Lycos obeyed! The only problem is...Lycos
can't read our minds and didn't know that we were looking for Northeast Wisconsin
Technical College (nwtc) and so...it found the National Wind
Technology Center (nwtc) web page for us. So, what do you think of
that? Interesting huh?
A few thoughts on this Search process. 1. Lycos works very well. 2. Computers can't read our minds. 3. What we think we will get as a Search result and what we actually get may and often are two different things. 4. Sometimes I find the greatest web pages...by accident...like this one. I will probably put this page into my Favorites and look at it later...it really looks interesting. 5. While we may think that Lycos failed to find what we are looking for, we don't know that yet...for sure. We could click the next link on the bottom of the white part of the Lycos Search Engine and maybe there, we will find the nwtc that we are looking for?
Well, I clicked on the next button about 18 times and finally found a link to Northeast Wisconsin Technical College....at long last!
Are there lessons to be learned here? Sure....for all of us. One of which is...you just may find the neatest surprises on the internet, when you least expect them. So, should you be frustrated by this attempt at Searching by using the Search Button on the Navigation Toolbar on the MSIE Browser, using Lycos Search Engine? Well...I guess that's up to you. And, if your remember our first attempt at finding nwtc...we got lucky by typing go (space) nwtc and it listed only two web pages...neither of which was the National Wind Technology Center.
I guess that fact alone might allow us to draw some preliminary conclusions about Searching on the Internet. One conclusion might be that all Search Engines are not created equal? Another conclusion may be that each Search Engine uses different technologies to Search the Internet for web pages. So, there you have it...lesson # 2 in using Search Engines to Search the Internet for information that you want/need/would like to find!!!
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