Sometimes the best search strategy is to look for an image and then use the links from that image to find the answer. In case there's a need for more information from many websites - After finding the basic details in the above mentioned way it's easier to construct on QTSaver a sophisticated query that will gather the best results.
This strategy is good especially when you look for:
· Products
· People
· Paintings
For example: I used this strategy to answer the following questions on Yahoo Answers:
1. Who are the statues in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza supposed to be?
I entered search words San Francisco Civic Center statue into Google Image search and got a picture of a certain building. Clicking on that picture led me to Simon Bolivar's statue.
2. How did amur leopards come to be, when was its prime, why is it on a current endangered list?
I entered search words amur leopards into Google Image search and clicked the first picture. It led me to an article with all the needed details .
2 comments:
your qtsaver tool is excellent, i just ran a few tests and results were right on the money. I`m a partner at metabot.ru which is a meta-search engine, so I`m looking at different search engines all the time, and yours definitely stands out. please keep working on it, it`s a great concept. please also publish the help section in english is you get a chance
Your technique of searching in Google images instead of web results is interesting. I sometimes do it too.
I'm not sure I would have used the amur leopard example here as I feel that the web results are more interesting than the image ones. You were lucky to find details on the species on a Zoo website. It is true that in that case, the Staten Island zoo page contains all the relevant data.
I did a similar search on "tiger poaching" and found the results to be better. The images provide information that is sometimes easier to interpret that the snippets provided by Google.
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