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10 Tips To Improve Your Web Research Skills

Ruggero — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:13:44 +0000

These tips proved to be right for me.

When available on search engines use operators such as +, -, ”
Never stop searching for keywords and combining them with each other also with different combinations of the operators described above
Search keywords on Twitter and on the Google Keyword Tool
Use browser text search for quicker browsing (often triggered with CTRL+F)
Use Google Alerts to get the latest about your searches.
If the topic of your search is covered by news sources you can set a search on Google News and get a RSS with the results of your search.
Once you identify some trustworthy sources get their RSS feeds
Google is not a panacea on its own. Dig Youtube too. Many times you get related videos that give you other interesting keywords
When looking on search engines keep in mind that some commercially hot keywords can cause your results to be biased. The first 10 results might not be exhaustive of tell you what you are looking for. This is due to SEO .
Learn to code web crawlers in order to automate searches and filter content

How does someone improve their web research skills?

Find Out When China Will Overtake America

Ruggero — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:13:06 +0000

Type GDP Growth rate, Inflation and Yuan appreciation and find out when Chinese Gross Domestic Product will be higher than the American one.

Taken from the Economist

Enlighten a Dummy! Write Better Documentation Pages

Ruggero — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:24:03 +0000

The Web is filled with eBooks, HOWTO, step-by-step guides and so on. Well-written, accessible Documentation is essential to transfer knowledge about anything. But how can these pieces of text be packaged in a way such that the content can be easily skimmed by the average web user?

This is what The Documenter is all about: it allows you to build your documentation online for free and display it as a one-page layout with nice scrolling effects of your choice. This is a great tool to package knowledge because not only it also allows you to write guides but it produces a handy navigation bar for a more efficient content consumption.

This is a document example.

Start documenting now

Awesome Fonts for Your Next Project

Ruggero — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:18:11 +0000

The Lost Type Co-Op: ”a Pay-What-You-Want Type foundry, the first of its kind. Founded by Riley Cran and Tyler Galpin, originally in a whirlwind 24 hour adventure to distribute a single typeface, Lost Type has blossomed into a full fledged foundry, distributing fonts from designers all over the world, with its unique model. Users have the opportunity to pay whatever they like for a font, you can even type in ‘$0′ for a free download. 100% of funds from these sales go directly to the designers of the fonts, respectively.”