Templates for building a successful search string?

[Scott MacNaughton]

I wanted to see if anyone knew any forms or templates to build upon to make successful search strings?  Is there any software or templates to fill in to build upon and save for future use?  Is there any easy method or way of saving these searches or way to be able to use them over and over again and keep building upon them for future searches other then just keep cutting and pasting them into Google, Bing, etc.?

[Rose Owens]

Basically I set up all searches (search strings) as macros in Firefox to automatically run when Firefox is opened.

 

[Scott MacNaughton]

Rose,

How do I go about doing that or setting them up in Explorer and Firefox?  Are there any tutorials on this or do you have any notes on how to do this?  Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Rose Owens]

Install Firefox then add apps. I will have to get back to you on the specific search macros and  applications... However... in general you may want to start with:

Autopager

Outwit

Liquid Info/Hyperwords

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/?application=firefox

Rose

Scott MacNaughton said:

Rose,

How do I go about doing that or setting them up in Explorer and Firefox?  Are there any tutorials on this or do you have any notes on how to do this?  Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Rose Owens]

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[Irina Shamaeva]

Scott,

I know how much there is info online about that. But I am afraid it's the wrong approach to set templates for search strings or set strings for future use. (Setting Google alerts is another thing and can be very useful.) 

"Templates" for search strings were initially created to teach how to source and to provide examples and gradually became commodities (cheat-sheets) to market and sell, along with software that automates searches.

In reality, setting a template for "a successful string" is like setting a menu template for "a great dinner".

Looking through some templates could be very useful initially, while you are learning how to search (or how to cook, in case of dinners) but being productive with string templates on a regular basis is a myth. (I may have contributed to this myth's survival by naming this network "Boolean Strings" two years ago.)

That said, you can certainly save your search strings. You can keep a text file with strings, or keep URLs of searches, so that you save and share the search along with the options, or build a custom search engine for repeated searches, as an example, to keep a long list of target companies included. Automation that Rose is suggesting could be useful as well. I also use default search engines in Chrome to speed up some searches.

-Irina

[Scott MacNaughton]

Hello Rose,

Thank You for the help and info.  I will definitely look into these.
 
Rose Owens said:

Install Firefox then add apps. I will have to get back to you on the specific search macros and  applications... However... in general you may want to start with:

Autopager

Outwit

Liquid Info/Hyperwords

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/?application=firefox

Rose

Scott MacNaughton said:

Rose,

How do I go about doing that or setting them up in Explorer and Firefox?  Are there any tutorials on this or do you have any notes on how to do this?  Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Scott MacNaughton]

Thank you Irina for the help.

Irina Shamaeva said:

Scott,

I know how much there is info online about that. But I am afraid it's the wrong approach to set templates for search strings or set strings for future use. (Setting Google alerts is another thing and can be very useful.) 

"Templates" for search strings were initially created to teach how to source and to provide examples and gradually became commodities (cheat-sheets) to market and sell, along with software that automates searches.

In reality, setting a template for "a successful string" is like setting a menu template for "a great dinner".

Looking through some templates could be very useful initially, while you are learning how to search (or how to cook, in case of dinners) but being productive with string templates on a regular basis is a myth. (I may have contributed to this myth's survival by naming this network "Boolean Strings" two years ago.)

That said, you can certainly save your search strings. You can keep a text file with strings, or keep URLs of searches, so that you save and share the search along with the options, or build a custom search engine for repeated searches, as an example, to keep a long list of target companies included. Automation that Rose is suggesting could be useful as well. I also use default search engines in Chrome to speed up some searches.

-Irina

[Rose Owens]

Thanks Irina!!!

We (I) are always learning!!

You Rock!

Irina Shamaeva said:

Scott,

I know how much there is info online about that. But I am afraid it's the wrong approach to set templates for search strings or set strings for future use. (Setting Google alerts is another thing and can be very useful.) 

"Templates" for search strings were initially created to teach how to source and to provide examples and gradually became commodities (cheat-sheets) to market and sell, along with software that automates searches.

In reality, setting a template for "a successful string" is like setting a menu template for "a great dinner".

Looking through some templates could be very useful initially, while you are learning how to search (or how to cook, in case of dinners) but being productive with string templates on a regular basis is a myth. (I may have contributed to this myth's survival by naming this network "Boolean Strings" two years ago.)

That said, you can certainly save your search strings. You can keep a text file with strings, or keep URLs of searches, so that you save and share the search along with the options, or build a custom search engine for repeated searches, as an example, to keep a long list of target companies included. Automation that Rose is suggesting could be useful as well. I also use default search engines in Chrome to speed up some searches.

-Irina