Are you strictly a Googler?

What do I mean?

I mean, do you run to Google every time you need to find something online? (If you solely rely on Google for all your search needs, you’re missing out on a lot of great content.)

Don’t get me wrong, Google is a great resource, but it’s far from a *perfect* resource. Try to find audio with it and you’ll see what I mean. Let’s consider expanding your horizons when it comes to the tools you use to find content online.

Building Your Search Toolbox
When doing a Web search, if you’re not finding what you’re looking for using Google, simply run your search through a different search engine. Each search engine has its own ‘personality’ which is reflected in the results it returns.

What I mean by this is that if you search for ‘dog’ on Google, in addition to the regular search results, you might also see book experts with the term ‘dog’ in them, as a bonus from Google. Whereas the same search on Yahoo might turn up regular search results, in addition to links to Yahoo’s extensive pet portal. You get the idea.

Here are just a few of the various Web search tool to try when you go looking for general Web content:

http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.ask.com
http://www.clusty.com
http://www.alexa.com
http://www.gigablast.com

Another thing to keep in mind when looking for content online is that ‘general’ search engines (such as Google and Yahoo) are great when looking for general content, but when you go looking for specialized content, such as audio, video, news, etc, you need to use specialized search engines.

Yes, there are very powerful search engines designed specifically for finding various kinds of content. If you’re looking for high quality results, you need to move beyond Google!

When looking for audio, try:
http://www.altavista.com

When looking for video, try:
http://www.youtube.com
http://video.google.com
http://video.yahoo.com

When looking for reference material, try:
http://www.answers.com
http://www.wikipedia.org

When looking for news, try:
http://news.google.com
http://news.yahoo.com
http://www.topix.net

There are specialty search engines for practically any kind of content you can imagine:

Articles
Quotations
Song lyrics
Blogs
RSS feeds
News pictures
Online multimedia
Webcams
and more!

Using these various search engine tools for the task at hand will dramatically increase the quality of results you get, but there’s not denying that sending your search to these various search engines will require some sweat – that is, unless you have InfoFinder Pro

InfoFinder Pro gives you one-click access to some of the most powerful, and content-specific search engines. You enter your keyword once, and you can quickly search for that keyword on Google, Yahoo Images, YouTube, Answer.com, and others. You’re a click away from finding images, audio, video, news, reference material, books, CDs, blogs, RSS feeds, and more! You get all the benefits of an tremendous search toolbox – without the sweat!