You can add keywords found from your initial searches
to refine the results of later
searches.
Searches are often iterative, so that you may try a couple of
searches, find some more information, and then refine and target your search
to reflect what you have learned. You can sometimes find whole new branches
of information by copying new, unique identifying words from a page returned
from an initial search and adding them to your query, exploring your way across
the Internet.
The best new keywords
to
add are unusual names of people, organizations, places, and other unique
identifiers. For example, say you are searching on Mozart, and find out
he spent time in Salzburg. You can then add that new keyword to your search to
target information on Mozart
related to Salzburg:
biography
AND amadeus AND salzburg
You can try different combinations of unique keywords that you find on the
pages returned by initial searches, enabling you to branch out and explore
a wide variety of information related to your main topic. For example, as you
read some of the pages returned by your search, you may want to add new keywords
to explore the following branches:
biography
AND mozart AND vienna
biography
AND mozart AND "maria anna"
