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guide for .network users
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browse .network introduction not a link : points to navigation buttons previous page in series next page in series

Helpguide for Searchers: Pull-down on menu below below to select a topic.

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navigation bar extensionaccess Site Location Assistance.comFMH = Find Me Here  websiteEDN = Economic Development Network websitedetails: personal search assistance available
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search tool:

Search tools are software contrivances for finding information. A typical browser's toolbar includes a page-search tool. A search engine is a tool that creates and/or uses a large database. Tools used to query the Web, such as the Google/.network search engine, uses robot-like contrivances (bots) to crawl through massive informational resources, picking and storing as they move along. All search tools allow you to query for keywords. Use the drop-down menu below to see and select examples of various search tools. You are covered by a promise when making any selection and proceeding to search with an intent to find .network mission related information. The promise is an offer of free personal search assistance.



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FMH Search Engine

... search tool introduced in 1997 with the websites of The Network. It remains the best choice for searching the Global Registry of Contacts because, as you can see, one of its drop down menus is set to search case-sensitive. Information published online from the GRC database is almost entirely made up of proper names—locations, people, organizations. In addition to setting the search tool for a case-sensitive query, it is also recommended that you set the first pull-down on the left to search as-a-phrase. Your search inside Find Me Here.com where the GRC is housed will be more efficient. You can change the drop-down settings and may want to do so to search, for example, the .network glossary.

FMH Search Engine:


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Don't include quotation marks, asterisks or other non-alpha/numeric characters When using the following search tool (also provided above). If you try to use a logogram, such as the ampersand, it is recommended that you place it at the end of your keyword combination. For example, say that you want to search for resource & service providers rather than resource and service providers. In that case, you simply search for resource & and nothing more. Although its use is discouraged by the example, searching with the ampersand may be necessary when it is part of a name, for example, when searching a contact directory.



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search the Web

... expression used to indicate searching online.
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What does powered by Google mean?
You Google the Web when you use the search engine provided above. CLICK HERE to add radio buttons for searching inside .network websites. Choose a different search engine from following pull-down menu—most listings are linked for advanced search.


It's easy to execute an advanced search and obtain results in a more precise manner simply by creating keyword combinations with relational text or as a phrase. Search engines like the one above will accept the use of parentheses or quotation marks. See the definition of advanced search for an example of creating a phrase search. The definition of phrase search explains how advanced search features are provided by the use of pull-down menus.

Search the Web—a resource of the .network library.

Internet Search Tips and Strategies—a resource provided online by Robert Harris.

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search a webpage:

Page-search tools are applications that perform the function of looking through the text contained in files actively displayed on your computer screen ... typically available on a toolbar.

Let's say, for example, that you found this page after executing an advanced search of the Web for the phrase: "definition of economic development" ... made your selection from search results which brought you to the top of this page. There you did not readily see what you searched for. It would be time-consuming to browse but, by utilizing the handy tool recommended, you save time by searching again for one or more of exactly the same text items that you originally did. It's often simple enough to copy and paste what you originally search for to your page-search tool, but know it well enough to decide if you should eliminate certain advanced search elements, such as quotation marks.

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source:

Your browser's toolbar likely provides the means to view the source page of file actively displayed on your computer screen. It may be worthwhile at times to search—scroll up to review information about searching a webpage. It has the definition of a page-search tool which you would also use to search the source page that you access.

The common computer language used to write instructions for publishing a webpages is hypertext (see the definition of HTML published by Tim Berners-Lee for his book, Weaving the Web); however, there are other scripting languages.

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The Network is for Searching:

Pages 4 through 8 of Introduction to The Network will explain— by the way, you are now on page 9. Go to Find Me Here.com. There you will see links for either entering or searching.

The link to ENTER Find Me Here takes you to a directory for selecting tools or helpful information about searching. Select SEARCH to enter a looped series of three pages with tools for Googling the Web as well as querying the .network websites.

The Network is made up of three websites. Its purpose is to bring people together to make enterprise and economic development happen. With that in mind, you may be interested in knowing that Find Me Here houses the Global Registry of Contacts. The best tool to use to search the GRC is the FMH Search Engine—page up or CLICK HERE for access. Find Me Here also houses the alphapages of the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary. If you want to search the alphapages, CLICK HERE.

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point and click:

The assumption is that you are using a mouse to move the cursor around on your computer screen to where you can select something, for example, one of links in this paragraph. Also, examples are shown below of GUIs (Graphical User Interface elements) that will take your click command after you set the pointing device. The operative word is select. Business Dictionary.com offers a definition of point and click.

check box / definition of check box

radio button / definition of radio button / radio buttons used in The Network
back arrow for pages in series

.network navigation button (example) / see pages-in-series below

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pages in series:

Introduction to The Network below lists pages in a series. Select a page (1—10) then look at its upper-right corner to see navigation buttons. An example of a navigation button is show above—CLICK HERE for more information about them. Use of the word navigation implies that you have a sense of where you are and where you are headed.

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TechWeb Solutions:

... its owner, Bobby Glover, organized the technical side of The Network in 1996 and was its original webmaster. He designed and published the first .network webpages. He built its computers and, as a member of the headquarters relocation team for Economic Development Services, was the architect of its intranet and Web connections. Later he formed TechWeb Solutions but keeps his ties to The Network as its technical advisor.

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Introduction to The Network:

page 1 Who we are
page 2 3 websites
page 3 mission
page 4 search
page 5 search for a resource
page 6 search for a location
page 7 search for a contact
page 8 search promise
page 9 helpguide for searchers [page up]
page 10 library
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about: .network users
about: .network user contacts
  .network glossary

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spacerenter Site Location Assistance.comenter Find Me Here.comenter Economic Development.netthe .network search promise
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