6 Quick Tips to Help You Search Better Excite makes searching easy, but there are a few tricks that can help you get your results even easier. Here's how:1.Choose Your Terms Carefully The words you enter in the search box will have the most direct impact on the results you receive. For that reason, we suggest that you use the most direct words you can. For example, if you're looking for information about Lassie, the collie TV celebrity, enter "Lassie TV show dog" or "Lassie the dog" and NOT "collies" or "dogs on TV".2.Use Appropriate Spacing Excite recognizes any spaces that you enter in the search box, so search with the correct spaces included. If you search "Dog toys" you will most likely receive a list of various chews, toys and other fun. Searching "dogtoys" will probably return similar results, but may also include a specific site (if there was a dogtoys.com), a band name, or any other exact match for dogtoys without a space.3.Use Terms In Correct Order Simple enough, right? Enter "dog shows" and you're going to be getting results about various dog shows, clubs, recaps of past events, etc. Enter "show dogs" and you're going to get specific information about dog breeds, how to train a show dog, etc.4.Refine Your Results If you do a search, and get too many vague results, you can refine the results using Excite's automatic categorization technology. This feature automatically categorizes results into categories based on words and phrases contained in the results. For example, if you searched the term "insurance", Excite would sort the results into various insurance categories, like Home, Auto, Fire, Health, etc. By clicking on any of the category links, you would then view the results for that specific category. 5.Use Search Categories If you're looking for a specific kind of result, use the category radio buttons located near the search box. Want pictures of dogs? Search Photos. Looking for the latest headlines on Lassie? Search News. Using the categories provides another way to target the exact results you're looking for.6.Use Advanced Excite Search has a special Advanced Search page that allows you to increase the accuracy of your single search. You can filter by domain, language or date. Advanced Search applies these characteristics to one search only.
