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NetSyn
February 27th, 2002, 03:30 PM
This is a simple tutorial we should ALL know..

What tutorial is this u may ask... well its is the tutorial of how to find stuff u want to know

So often i get asked questions like "What is the command in MS-DOS to make a folder"
i simply laugh at the ignorance of this question...
If you dont know sumthing why dont you try and find out the answer for urself rather then wasteing your time asking random people you know?

it just pisses me off that people have yet to figure out how to search for things...

In the computer class i tech service at there are a bunch of kids that dont know this easy kinda stuff..

they will have a word document that has listed works and ask you to define them...

easy things like IP and FTP or even OS... needless to say the kids stress over this test and spend over 40 mins trying to find the answers and come up with crap thats usually not releated to computers at all because they just dont know how to search


So here it is... the tutorial on how to find everything u want to know

STEP 1.
Know what you want to find..

STEP 2.
Phrase what you want to find in as little words as possible without using common words like "i" "of" "a" ect ect..

STEP 3.
load your internet browser

STEP 4.
Go to the URL bar and type Http://www.google.com

STEP 5.
Type what you want to find such as "quake 3 download warez" or "free essays The Revolution" or even "what does the word IP mean"

STEP 6.
Look at the results and read the descriptions and find the one that seems to best suit what you are looking for

STEP 7.
If you didnt find what you are looking for try to rephrase what you were looking for using diferent words

If this did not work for you then what you are looking for is probly not a very basic subject even for the internet to have...


On antionline's IRC server a newbie asked a question which i forget what it was but it was something on the lines of "what type of clients can i use to search news groups" I told him to search google and he asked why couldnt i just tell him the answer instead... i told him that if he doesnt learn how to do things on his own hes really not learning anything by asking this question..

I basicly told him almost every question he could ask can be answered by using google

well needless to say he became a smart ass and said "heh well then why do we have toe nails?"

well i used google and typed "Why do we have toe nails"

the very first result was from http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20010504.html

and stated According to the online encyclopedia, the human and primate nail corresponds to the claw, hoof, or talon of other animals. Human nails protect the tips of the toes and fingers, while fingernails help us pick up small objects and scratch ourselves



Well thank you for reading my tutorial and i hope u can pass it along to the next person that ask you a question you honestly dont feel like wasteing your time answering...


_NetSyN_

SarinMage
February 27th, 2002, 03:41 PM
hah nice!

Ennis
February 27th, 2002, 05:03 PM
http://www.copernic.com/desktop/index.html

Only if youre loaded mind but hey you want results ya gotta pay!

;)

valhallen
February 27th, 2002, 07:31 PM
heh maybe we should ask JP to include another button on the reply form that automaticaly inserts a link to google - the amount of times I have directed peps to there already is amazing :)

v_Ln

Mr.Dos
February 27th, 2002, 07:39 PM
Personally I like ennis tutorial a lot better he pays a lot more attention to detail you the man Ennis!

Your is kool but his is better!

Noia
February 27th, 2002, 07:44 PM
I'm in awe of the Amazind Search Tutorial....
Nice post.... this might get ppl to stop asking.......

- Noia

Barbarella
February 27th, 2002, 08:05 PM
:rolleyes: Kids these days!!! Nicely put NetSyN.


"Nothing is free. Not knowledge, and least of all, experience"

{P²P}Apocalypse
February 27th, 2002, 11:07 PM
All hail, all hail. Bow down before the Google gods........ :D

Google is by far the best search engine thats out there. If you can't find it on google. It must not be real...LOL
Another fairly good metasearch engine is: http://www.highway61.com/ .

BrainStop
March 1st, 2002, 01:13 PM
Thanks NetSyn!

Personally, I've gone to the next level of Googleness ... the toolbar! And editing the registry to make Google my default search as well ....

But enough of that ....

Nice tutorial!

BrainStop

E5C4P3
March 6th, 2002, 04:45 AM
nice post but i prefer metacrawler.com

smirc
March 6th, 2002, 05:25 AM
Good stuff NetSyn. The other thing that's worth mentioning is when people ask a question (especially coding questions) and they only give you half the information. If you ask a question at least give some evidence that you have tried to find the answer yourself. Say, "I've tried A and B and C was my output but that didn't give me the result I want." The more info you give, the easier it is to answer the question.

RiOtEr
March 6th, 2002, 06:30 AM
hehe btw google will give u more info than u n00bies think just a few things ive learned over the times if ur at school and u really want porn and they have a filter etc why u want porn at school i dont know but goto the google image search turn the mature content filter off and wollah porn hehe
p;us u can use it to do a simple search for open folders like /cgi-bin/ etc or even .htacces or however u spell im not to good at that lol well hope thats some help to someone
thanks
RiOtEr

IcSilk
February 17th, 2005, 10:42 AM
I have Google load as my home page - in IE its always just a click away, I have 2 keyboard shortcuts for it as well - one for left hand convenience and one for right hand convenience, lol
I laugh but its not a joke . . .

|3lack|ce
February 17th, 2005, 10:50 AM
IcSilk - look up one post. See the little flashing date? It means this thread is nearly 3 years old! The guy who started it isn't even around anymore...

Next time, check the dates.

IcSilk
February 17th, 2005, 10:54 AM
haha - oops . . . didn't even see that ( didn't even think to look, hehe) - little strung out on lack of sleep :p