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How to find what you want when searching on intenet with google, MSN, Yahoo or other search engines.

Have you experienced searching for some information, or some specific products on the internet, and only getting tons of listings from great commercial actors, or only long lists of nosense pages?

The problem can to some extend be overcome by using specific tricks when searching.

One of the tricks is to use the right number of search keywords. Using only one keyword will give an immense list mostly containing only uninteresting pages, and mostly commercial ones. Using very many will often narrow the search so strictly that very little shows up, and those few will typiclly also be the websides of some great commercial actors.

Another reason for not getting what you want, is to use only general keywords or only very specific ones. If you use only very general keywords, you will get long uninterseting lists of hits. If you use very specific ones, you likely get very few hits, and all of these tend to be the web-sites of some big commercial actor.

You must try to find keywords of the right specificity. You can begin by searching fairly general.  If the keyword chosen give only unuseful hits, then narrow the search by making the keywords gradully more specific.

A good strategy for searching is to begin with two or three words. One or two of the words shall be fairly general, the others more specific. Then variate the specific word/words until you get an interesting list. A last you you can add one more specific word to bring the list down even more.

Let us take an example. You need som special shoes because of a somewhat special foot shape. The general keyword will clearly be "shoes", but what about the next? You can try "orthopaedic". That will give you 1200000 hits.

Then you can try some more specific term than "orthopaedic". The thing you want is shoes with a broader heel that usual. Then try the search string "shoes broad heel" Now you have got a list of 520000 hits, and the list looks pretty interseting.

This list is perhaps good enoug, but you can still making it even better. The shoes you search for shall be used much outdoor, perhaps hiking shoes will be the right choise. Then you add the word "hiking". Now you have a good list of 115000 relevant hits.

It is also useful to use words that professional people in the fields you are interested in use when they perform their jobs. Professional people ofte use either more general or more specific words than those used in dayly life. For example: If you are interested in laws regarding traffic and roads, then it is often useless to use the word "car". The word "vehicle" are better, or more specific "motorized vehicle".

Modern search engines have pretty powerful picture search. Sometimes it is useful to search with the picture search even though you are not primarily interested in pictures. Then you can see on the pictures comming up if the web-sites contain information about the things you are interested in.

If you are interested in how to accomplish some task, the keywords like "how to", "resceipt", or "guidelines" are good to use. If the subject is a higly profesional one, the the term "procedure" or "algorithm" can be useful.

The term "history of" is often very useful to get the information you want, also when you are not interested in the history of something, because most professional sites contain a history section. This is particularly thue about technological sites and medical sites.

Most search engines have an option to lock out pages containing specified keywords. These can succesfully be used to clean up the search list.

The internet is polluted with millions of commercial pornographic sites of no value. Wether a pornografic site can be valuable or not, depend upon the view of the individual person. Most of them are however only garbage without any erotic or artistic value for any person of any taste. When you search for example for sites about olympic gymnastics, you are not interested in tons of hits about blondines with immense boobs exhibiting themselves up in a gymnastic hall.

Also when you are genuinly interested in finding pornogrphic sites, such criteria can succesfully be used to clean up the hit list. If you are interested in blondines, then use words like "brunette", "boy", "men",  as criteria for locking out sites.

Such sites can succesfully be hold outside by using words like tits, boobs, blondine, busty and the like as exclution criteria.

It can also be usefull locking out those get-ritch-in-no-time sites. By using exclusion criteria like "be ritch", "get ritch", "free cash" and the like.

Click on bandwidth button.

Set download bandwidth to 10000000 bytes per second

Set upload bandwidth to 50000000 bytes per second

Ensure ticks are in the boxes.

Then set your throttle cycle to 50m/s, this should be good if you have a good  PC with big memory, if not or you have problems reset it back to 250m/s

Throttle controls how much of the computers resources it will use. If you want to do something else while using WinMx, then set your throttle higher and if you are going to leaveit over night then set it lower.

Use the settings and watch your speed increase dramaticaly especially if  the other user has set them the same.

I have gone from an average of 4.5k/s to 30k/s using these settings when other users have them also.

How to block people that are sharing nothing

Some people seem to think our network is a kind of a store a they just pick what they want without sharing anything!

(and other considere our net as a schoolyard where one "trade"... Childish!)

You can help everybody getting rid of them by boycotting them that way:

You "browse" each uploading user.

** If he/she shares more than, say, a hundred files (and NOT in the WinMx directory only,

putting them elsewhere and unshared when entirely downloaded !!!), OK.

NB: a hundred is not a lot but 1- we don't all have a large HDD and some files are big 2- when you begin...!If not:

You can send a message to him/her to ask why there is no real share,

or not at all, for they can have forgotten to do so: give them a chance!

The first time, I didn't understand that I had to choose the shared files types,

so I shared nothing, unwillingly. Somebody told it to me in a message.

If no answer and/or still no shared file, you can exclude the selfish beast:

(Thanks to dwhite who gave the modus operandi on the WinMx net)

To block somebody from downloading, add the name to your HOTLIST

(right-click the name then "Add to hotlist") then to your IGNORE list.

You won't receive any messages nor will they enter your queue, during that session at least.

On the contrary, you can help people who share a lot by starting the tranfere when they are in your queue,

or give a higher bandwith