On the results page, there are a couple of things you can do to get more information about the results of the search: Use this link to go to the Google web site. Try typing different things such as names, phone numbers, and more to find people or things. Putting a phrase into quotes tells Google to look for the exact words in that exact order. "JAWS screen reader" (in quotes), about 49,600 resultsĪs you narrow your search and use better keywords, you get more relevant results.There will most likely still be links to videos on YouTube or other sources.
JAWS windows -movie, still yields about the same number of results, but you find much more information about JAWS screen reader and very little, if any, information about movies.You can exclude many of the movie-related hits by searching for "JAWS -movie." (Be sure to include a space before the minus sign and no spaces between the minus sign and the word "movie.") Searches for JAWS with different conditions yielded the following results:
For example, "JAWS" can refer to a screen reading software or a famous movie. Causes Google to exclude a word from your search. You can also use the following items within your keywords for Google searches: You can also search for a specific phrase by including words in quotation marks. For example, a search for the keyword "musicians" will yield far more results than a search for the keywords "Elvis Presley." You do not need to include "and" between terms, but the order in which you type your keywords will affect the search results. Using good keywords gives you better results. If you find that you get too many "hits" or web pages that match your search, you can enter more words in your search query to narrow the choices. But first, Google only returns web pages that contain all of the words in your query. We will discuss some techniques for finding the results on the page in a moment. You can press DOWN ARROW to move through the list and then ENTER to perform a search, or you can simply continue typing what you are searching for without using the list.Īfter you have typed in some text, press ENTER to activate the Search button. To move to the address bar, just press ALT+D.Įither way, as you begin typing, an autocomplete list may appear. If you use Chrome or Firefox as your browser, Google is the default search engine so you can also perform searches right from the address bar. TIP: Mouse users can also click inside edit boxes and forms mode comes on automatically. If for some reason forms mode does not come on automatically on your computer, you can also press ENTER to go into forms mode, or you can press INSERT+F5 to open the JAWS Select a Form Field dialog box. Forms mode comes on automatically when you go to a web page which has the focus set to a blinking cursor in an edit box. When you first go to the Google web site there is a blinking cursor in the search edit box near the middle of the page. GoogleĮXERCISE: Use the link below to go to the Google web site and follow along with the instructions. As a result, you may find that if either site changes, your experience with JAWS may be different than what is described here. Web pages are often dynamic and can change at any time. In this section, we briefly look at Google and Bing. Therefore, it may actually be beneficial to use more than one search engine on a regular basis. In fact, they are often different due to the way each search engine behaves. Keep in mind that the results you get from one search engine may not match the results you get from another search engine.
There are several types of search engines and searches may cover titles of documents, URL's, headers, or full text. Search engines on the World Wide Web are remotely accessible programs that let you do keyword searches for information on the Internet. Using Search Engines to Find Information on the Web Search Engines