Browsing Strategies

Tools needed to surf the web:

Computer with a web browser application installed 
Modem and/or NIC (network interface card) 
ISP (internet service provider)

The best searching techniques that you should follow:

1. Use keyword rather than sentences.
2. Use double quote (“  ”) to search for exact word.
3. Use ‘+’ sign.
4. Use Boolean Search.
5. Use alternatives.
6. Avoid Stopwords.
7. Truncation.
8. Wildcards.
9. Maximize the usage of the toolbar of the search engine.
   
   

   

   Other techniques you can use to improve your searches include the followings: 

•   Use specific nouns 
•   Put the most important terms first in the search text. 
•   List all possible spellings, for example, email.
•   Before using a search engines, read its Help information.

Please click at this video to understand more about the topic.

  

For more information on the web advance searching technique, please click at this link.

http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/websearch/quick.html

Scenario:

There are many internet service provider in Malaysia such as Maxis, Celcom and Digi. What do you think will happen if only one of the ISP above is exists? What is the impacts of the situation to you as a users?