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Figure 7.26 getting photography pointers to information collections from the Yahoo directory.
the more dificult, but thorough way
With the more diicult way you may ind more sites, but it will be, well,
more diicult. Start with a full-text search engine and run a query about
your topic, but use modiier keywords to slant your results toward search
engines and information collections. What kind of modiier keywords?
Terms like search , or what's new , or category Advanced Search are good
query phrases to use when you want results that are geared toward inding
search engines.
What you're trying to add to your topic words are words that would nor-
mally appear on a search engine or directory's home page, or on a search
engine or directory's search page.
When you're narrowing a query by using a lot of additional words, try to use
more general words. he combination of tightly focused topic phrases and
more general additional phrases should yield results that contain directo-
ries of interest, sometimes blogs, sometimes link lists, and sometimes even
pages from various Yahoo properties. Figure 7.27 shows an example of this
search run in Google.