Find What You Want Online Through a Web Portal
Each day the internet gets larger.
Through the constant dedication of millions of web developers connected through this "web," it becomes an increasingly better resource and services vehicle.
For users new to the internet, or those that just can't seem to find what they want, or where they want to go, there is help.
And more of it each year as for some web developers, just this is their focus.
Most internet users would agree that the popular search engines like Google and MSN provide a great entry point to much of the content available on the internet.
Due to the constant refresh needs of websites and the nature of search crawling (which is the automated process of a search engine updating its database of what each website looks like), search naturally cannot provide the most up-to-date results.
It does provide the best results still.
The success of "modern" internet search is considered by most to be the hinge upon which popular internet success swings.
But how about actually finding what you want when you use a search engine? There are many reports that show different things, but for the most part people become more successful at finding something online through search when they have practice searching for something specific.
Or, if it is a common thing with just one keyword.
Dogs or cats, say.
Users that keep trying eventually do find what they want, but sometimes enough searches aren't done to actually reach the goal of finding "it.
" Needless to say, if you don't know what you want to find, then using search is irrelevant--unless you enter the phrase "web directory.
" Internet or web directories are a widely used but still very much secondary internet resources.
Each provides a click-through directory of sometimes millions of websites.
The benefit for internet users is that they not only can browse [instead of search], but the brain is given many suggestions for things to search for next time they do a search.
Apart from advertising of web sites by major media companies, these web directories keep the "well from going dry.
" If you are bored of searching and using the internet, and maybe you are, then you probably haven't used a web directory yet.
One of my favorites is dmoz.
org.
It has endless links to websites and is an open directory, which means that dozens and dozens of caring users/web champions are maintaining the lists and categories.
For users who want more of a browse and search internet experience, a real balance between a web directory and search capability, there are internet portals.
The goal of which is to give users fast access to what is commonly used on the internet.
Users who "can't remember that site they saw" usually won't have much luck looking through a web directory for that website.
If it's a common website, then a website portal like ifoyer.
com, which provides links to over 500 of the most popular websites today, is typically their best bet.
These websites give what most users consider to be a top-level look at the popular internet.
If you still can't find it, in general: search, browse, repeat.
And just keep trying.
It's out there somewhere on the web.
Now, what was I looking for?
Through the constant dedication of millions of web developers connected through this "web," it becomes an increasingly better resource and services vehicle.
For users new to the internet, or those that just can't seem to find what they want, or where they want to go, there is help.
And more of it each year as for some web developers, just this is their focus.
Most internet users would agree that the popular search engines like Google and MSN provide a great entry point to much of the content available on the internet.
Due to the constant refresh needs of websites and the nature of search crawling (which is the automated process of a search engine updating its database of what each website looks like), search naturally cannot provide the most up-to-date results.
It does provide the best results still.
The success of "modern" internet search is considered by most to be the hinge upon which popular internet success swings.
But how about actually finding what you want when you use a search engine? There are many reports that show different things, but for the most part people become more successful at finding something online through search when they have practice searching for something specific.
Or, if it is a common thing with just one keyword.
Dogs or cats, say.
Users that keep trying eventually do find what they want, but sometimes enough searches aren't done to actually reach the goal of finding "it.
" Needless to say, if you don't know what you want to find, then using search is irrelevant--unless you enter the phrase "web directory.
" Internet or web directories are a widely used but still very much secondary internet resources.
Each provides a click-through directory of sometimes millions of websites.
The benefit for internet users is that they not only can browse [instead of search], but the brain is given many suggestions for things to search for next time they do a search.
Apart from advertising of web sites by major media companies, these web directories keep the "well from going dry.
" If you are bored of searching and using the internet, and maybe you are, then you probably haven't used a web directory yet.
One of my favorites is dmoz.
org.
It has endless links to websites and is an open directory, which means that dozens and dozens of caring users/web champions are maintaining the lists and categories.
For users who want more of a browse and search internet experience, a real balance between a web directory and search capability, there are internet portals.
The goal of which is to give users fast access to what is commonly used on the internet.
Users who "can't remember that site they saw" usually won't have much luck looking through a web directory for that website.
If it's a common website, then a website portal like ifoyer.
com, which provides links to over 500 of the most popular websites today, is typically their best bet.
These websites give what most users consider to be a top-level look at the popular internet.
If you still can't find it, in general: search, browse, repeat.
And just keep trying.
It's out there somewhere on the web.
Now, what was I looking for?
