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search help
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.network search promise guide
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scroll the page or pull down and select a help topic:
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about search tools
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What is a search tool? The answer is in the .network glossary, Appendix I, which has definitions of various search related terms. Appendix L has definitions of terms related to being online. Pull down and select a tool for searching the Web or .network websites:

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searching the Web:
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dotUse advanced search techniques ( examples of tools ready for advanced searches)
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dotSetting keyword combinations inside quotation marks is an advanced search technique.
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dotSave timedashbe efficient (use a page-search tool after selecting from search results)
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dotThe Google/.network search engine queries the Web as well as .network websites
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dotThe .network search promise covers your use of any search engine.
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dotThe Network offers suggestions of keyword combinations to use when searching
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dotThe .network library search section lists the following as well as additional resources:
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spacerCLICK HERE to access search resources in the library
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University of California Beckley / Library (Internet search tutorial)
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University at Albany / Library (http://www.internettutorials.net)
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OWL at Perdue University / Searching the World Wide Web
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The Spiders Apprentice / A Helpful Guide to Web Search Engines
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Imaginary Landscape.com / The Help Web
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about Tim Berners-Lee at the W3C website / about the World Wide Web Consortium

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searching a single webpage:

The typical scenario would be to place a keyword combination in a search field in order to produces the search results you want. The best search engines show you a bit of the information found with an indication of just where your keywords or phrase fits in and they may also show you URL address strings (example) ...
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What is a page search tool?

... an application that performs the specific function of searching text contained in a file actively displayed on your computer screen. A page search tool is most likely available on your browser's tool bar. Some sophisticated files online provide built-in page search tools. Also, there are various offerings of free page search tool downloads which you can easily find through Search in the .network library. Copy and paste the following italicized keyword combination in the search box at the top of the page there, keeping the quotation marks intact, then select the search button: definition of "page search tool"

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view webpage source code:

The most common computer language used to write instructions for publishing a webpage is known as hypertext (see the definition of HTML in the online glossary published for Tim Berners-Lee's Weaving the Web). There are other scripted languagesdashto define scripted in this regard is to point out that a sequence of instructions (script) has to be in place in order for graphics and text to be displayed in a browser as intended. This means, for example, that what you are now viewing has a script that contains its source code.

To view a webpage source code, one typically has use a tool that will display it as a text file. Go to the menu bar and select Source under View if, for example, you are using Internet Explorer. The following links are provided in order to help you learn more.

To view the HTML source code for a Web page using Internet Explorer 3.x and later, click Source on the View menu. To view the HTML source code for a Web page using Internet Explorer 2.x, right-click the Web page, and then click View Source.

Many Web pages use frames to display several Web pages on the same screen. To view the HTML source code for a Web page that contains frames, right- click the Web page in a frame, and then click View Source.

Search engine results are reported on a SERP (Search Engine Results Page). Among search engines on the list suggested above is the one Google allows The Network to make available at its websites. See the Google/.network Search Engine Results Page Guide.

Also, see an example of search results by using the original .network search tooldashto access the search tool in this help file, CLICK HERE. We (who we are) suggest that you copy and paste the following italicized phrase in its search field: definition of search field

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search results:

... defined in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary.

Access the list of search engines suggested by .network users to obtain your own example of search results. Pick a search engine and query the Web for a keyword combination such as "definition of search results" enterprise and economic developmentdashkeep the quotation marks intact as you copy and paste the italicized text to the search field.

Search engine results are reported on a SERP (Search Engine Results Page). Among search engines on the list suggested above is the one Google allows The Network to make available at its websites. See the Google/.network Search Engine Results Page Guide.

Also, see an example of search results by using the original .network search tooldashto access the search tool in this help file, CLICK HERE. We (who we are) suggest that you copy and paste the following italicized phrase in its search field: definition of search field

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searching The Network:
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dotspacerGoogle/.network search engine
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dotspacersearching inside Site Location Assistance.com
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dotspacersearching inside Find Me Here.com
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dotspacersearching inside Economic Development.net
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dotspacersearching the Global Registry of Contacts
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The following links go to pages in a series that introduce The Network:

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dotspacersearch for a resource for enterprise development, site selection, economic development
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dotspacersearch for locations for site selection and seeking economic development
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dotspacersearch for a resource or service provider listed in the Global Registry of Contacts
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dotspacersearch assistance
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dotspacersearch help (You are currently using Search Help. Link is to the top of this page.)
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dotspacerdirectory of pages in the .network introductory series
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pages in series: back one page in a series (not a link here)forward one page in a series (not a link here)

Red buttons with arrows are for moving back and forth through pages in a series. The buttons shown here are not linked. A three-page in a looped series with each representing a website is offered as a example with working buttons (access the example). You can't miss the buttons at the top of example series. Select the help link adjacent to a button to exit the loop.

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pull-down menudasha working example:

about radio buttons and check boxesdashhow to use them:
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dotspacerWhat is a radio button?dashexample: (radio buttons used with a search engine)
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dotspacerWhat is check box?dashexample:

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.network navigation:

... means moving along with a sense of where you are and where you are headed.

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dotspacerWhat is advanced search?dashanswer (Page up to the topic: Searching the Web)
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dotspacerWhat is a search box?dashanswer (Answers.com definition)
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dotspacerWhat is a search field?dashanswer (Answers.com definition)
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dotspacerWhat is a search results button?dashanswer / example
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dotspacerWhat is a search results help button?dashanswer / example
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dotspacerWhat are Google/.network search engine, search results?dashguide / explanations
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dotspacerWhat is a search button?dashanswer (use a button to search the Web for a location)
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[back button] [forward button]:
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Back and forward buttons are displayed as graphics on the toolbars of most browsers. Information is stored as users work with their browsers so that the buttons can be selected at anytime to move back or forward through accessed files. In other words, a browser bookmarks work in progress while the buttons, as part of a program that logically lays out files in the background, are there to be used to recall pages visited. Wikipedia's discussion of Internet Bookmarks adds to this definition of browser back/forward buttons.

Graphics provided as as navigation aids for webpages published in a series are not the same as the back/forward buttons on your browser. Page up to information about their use in The Network. Also, back/forward button graphics used with .network pages in series are defined in the glossary, Appendix H. For an example of .network pages in series, CLICK HERE.
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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.

CONTACT Bobby Glover by accepting and using his GetReal Media business card

Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization at the TechWeb Solutions website

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key word searches:

Keyword is defined in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary.
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search phrase:

... a keyword combination typed or copied and pasted into a search field, instructing the query program to keep the text intact as if set inside quotation marks. In fact, many search engines will recognize text placement in their search boxes set within quotation marks as phrases and, thus, function in an advanced search mode (see searching the Web). In addition to its Google search engine adapted for querying its websites as well as the Web, recognizing quotation marks as setting off phrases, The Network has its internal search tool which uses pull-down menus to set search parameters. The left-hand pull-down on the search tool as shown below gives you the choices of searching (1) as a phrase, (2) all terms or (3) any terms. Don't use quotation marks to test the as-a-phrase setting.
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browser use:

A typical browser has a search box for entering a URL address string. The most popular browsers store address strings of Web locations accessed during work sessions so that users can later return to them. Copy and paste the italicized keywords, firefox guide using browser, in the search engine below and Google for information about the Firefox browser.

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text size:

Your browser most likely provides a means for changing text size. This may be useful for finding a comfortable setting for viewing what you see on your computer screen but often text size is controlled from a webpage. If that's the case and some text is controlled and some not, a page may lose the integrity of its original layout. It may look strange; nevertheless, if the intent is to gather information from text and, say enlarging it for comfortable viewing achieves that end, so be it. For your information, loose text on .network pages was originally laid out to be viewed with an IE browser setting of medium.

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Three hubs (websites) combine to make up The Network, each represented by a unique file-folder-button as shown below with the initials: SLA / FMH / EDN

Select a file folder to enter a .network hub.

link: http://www.sitelocationassistance.comlink: http://www.sitelocationassistance.comlink: http://www.findmehere.comlink: http://www.economicdevelopment.netspacer

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search: identity of a location
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The Network defines a location specifically to serve its mission. A location may be a county, a region (see city region), province, state, territory, or the like. It may be the smallest municipality within a country but it must be a place that can be found on a map.
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CLICK HERE for page 6, Search for a Location, of the introduction to The Network.

CLICK HERE for a guide to searching Area Development in Economic Development.net

CLICK HERE to arrange for a free listing of a location of interest to you in The Network.

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original .network search tool
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The following search tool is set for you to look inside Find Me Here.com for words that begin with capital letters such as the names of contacts and locations. Change the setting using the pull-down. For more guidance to help you use the tool, CLICK HERE.


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The search tool was published along with .network websites in early 1997. It remains useful today because is allows you to easily search case-sensitive inside the websites. For example, see the tool published on page 7, Search for a Contact, of the introduction to The Network. There the case setting is for words that begin with capital letters.

CLICK HERE access the tool set as shown above in Site Location Assistance.com

Google introduced its search engine in 1999. A special version is available for you to search inside .network websites or to Google the Web as usual.

CLICK HERE for the Google/.network search engine.

A few points to help you use the original .network internal search tool:
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dotspacerChange pull-downs to adjust for the type of search you want to conduct.
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dotspacerMaintain case-sensitive pull-down to search for words that begin with capital letters
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dotspacerMaintain as-a-phrase pull-down to search for what you would normally put in quotes
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dotspacerDon't put parentheses or quotes in the search boxdashsee tips for searching the Web
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dotspacerSearch for exactly the same thing on a page that you put in the search box
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dotspacerType the words definition of before anything else when searching the glossary

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link: introduction to .network websites
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three bullets:

... in typography the bullet is a dot as a symbol used to introduce listed items. There is also the ellipsis which may be referred to as bullets. Ellipses are used to indicate that something is missing. Two or three interpuncts that appear an an ellipsis may also be seen as bullets. Take a look at one of the alpha-pages of the .network glossary to see that between the boldface item listed for definition and explanation of its meaning the ellipsis is used. It generally indicates that the repeat of the item listing is left out. When a quote is an item listed in a paragraph, for example of a definition, three bullets should appear for missing words.

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Google/.network Search Engine:

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http://www.findmehere.com/search/dictionary/google.htm Web
dot SEARCH .network Site Location Assistance website [SLA]
dot SEARCH .network Find Me Here website [FMH]
dot SEARCH .network Economic Development Network website [EDN]
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series of pages / .network introduction:

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 search help
page 10 resource center
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about: resource and service providers as contacts
about: finding and networking with contacts

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

Initials overlaying the linked file-folder-buttons represent websites. CLICK HERE to learn more about them or select a button to enter. The red search promise button is also a link.

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Contact as the word is used throughout The Network means a resource supplier or service provider in position to assist business decision makers, entrepreneurs, leaders of fast-growing companies, site selectors, small business owners, and others who have plans or projects for the kind of enterprise development that leads to economic development around the world. Like those already mentioned, contacts are members of the .network target audience.
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Using the search tool we provide, if you query the Global Registry of Contacts as someone seeking information related to our mission, but are not satisfied with your search results, we stand ready to be of assistance. We refer to this commitment of readiness as a promise.

CLICK HERE for access to the search tool for the GRC online.
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Specifically, if you find a resource supplier or service provider listing from the GRC in any .network website, but without enough information or a link to move you on to make contact, send us an email to explain. Our response will be to publish updated contact data and possibly other information from the appropriate GRC record without obligation or cost to you. After that we will get back to you and explain what we've done. In the event that you search, but do not find the contact you want listed in the GRC, we offer to investigate to see what we can come up with; i.e., we will do our best to help you avoid a dead end search experience. We emphasize that delivery on our unique search promise is a free service.

CLICK HERE for answers to questions often asked about the Global Registry of Contacts
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