National Qualifications Online - Core skills

Refining your search

Decide what information you want to find. It may be about cheap holidays, or healthy diets, or a topic you read in a magazine.

Try to think of key words that will produce the information you want. For example, Rangers as a key word will produce many articles on forest rangers across the world. Is that what you wanted?

Similarly, Vikings as a key word will produce many pages on baseball teams in the USA that have this word in their name. Using Norse Vikings would cut out many of those.

There are many search engines, for example: