| Many writers, and for that matter many others, don't | | | | used together. In this case, 'AND' means basically, |
| know how to search effectively on the Internet. | | | | "Show me all pages containing the words 'writing' |
| Learning how to search to make money online will | | | | AND 'jobs.' Any pages that don't have both these |
| not only result in finding writing jobs that pay but | | | | words exclude from my results." |
| improve your visits to the Internet overall. | | | | In both the 'writing' and 'writing jobs' cases, the |
| The major search engines, Google, Ask, MSN, Yahoo, | | | | engine searched its indexes and found every instance |
| etc., 'spider' websites with bots (automated | | | | of the words searched, no matter how or where |
| programs) that index every single word on the pages | | | | they appeared on the indexed page. For 'writing job,' |
| they can get to on the sites they visit. Your | | | | results are returned not only on pages where the |
| searches at a search engine are actually conducted | | | | words 'writing' and 'jobs' are used together, as you'd |
| on massive storage devices that have saved the | | | | submitted them, but also on pages where 'writing' |
| index of words created by these bots. (That's why | | | | and 'jobs' were no where near and had nothing to do |
| clicking on a result at a search engine sometimes | | | | with each other. |
| takes you to a page that doesn't exist or doesn't | | | | But there's a fix, look at this...a search using quotes, |
| contain the query you submitted - that page has | | | | (double quotes this time), "writing jobs" produces |
| changed since the last time the search engine | | | | 717,000 results, about 1/10th of the same search |
| spidered and indexed it.) Understanding these | | | | without quotes. Using double quotes tells the search |
| indexes, however, lets us conduct clever searches on | | | | engine to find only those pages where the words |
| them for writing jobs - and anything else we need. | | | | 'writing and 'jobs' appear together in the order you |
| A single word search will produce different results | | | | listed them. "Jobs writing" produces even different |
| than multiple word searches. For example, 'writing' | | | | results...62,300 to be exact. |
| (without the single quotes) produces over | | | | Now, let's make some money. Here are some real |
| 605,000,000 results on Google. 'Writing jobs' (again | | | | examples you can use. By adding words that make |
| without the single quotes) produces 63,000,000 | | | | our search more exact, we can find writing jobs that |
| results. That's because the Boolean operator 'AND' | | | | pay and aren't just for free, for donation or for the |
| (named after George Boole who developed the logic | | | | public domain. |
| in 1854) is implied in cases where two words are | | | | |