Speed
Problem: No matter how
good you are at Internet searching, the results far outweigh your time to read
them!
Solution: Use the
"Cached" option that search engines provide.
Example: I need to do a report on the symbolism that
occurs in Hawthorne's work
If I type
"symbolism and
So, I'd like to
narrow my search to only college level educational sites and eliminate the
sites selling papers or college course syllibi.
I use the "Advanced Search" that most search engines offer and
limit the search to the .edu domain:
I still get 410
results, so I need to find which of these sites has the best information. I use the "Cached" option of
Google.
"Cached" highlights the words I'm searching for in
different colors. Since
"symbol" is green and "symbolism" is pink, I can quickly
scan articles for their usefulness:
As I scroll through
pages of the text, you can see that the highlighted words jump out and I can read
only the pertinent paragraphs:
