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The resolution was passed on to the appropriâ€" ate members of Parliament. There often isn‘t adeâ€" quate care and funding for elderly women, who generâ€" ally live longer than men, she said. The last national resoluâ€" tion Gumprich worked on was to provide longâ€"term healthâ€"care funding for women in nursing homes. Newly formed group represents women from all walks of life Continued from page 26 passes end up there. If you want to make your searches more effective, you are going to have to learn to use your tools more effecâ€" Using a single word search to find something on the web is like using sandâ€" paper to clean your glassâ€" es... in your attempt to see things more clearly, you end up making things all the more blurry. "I felt like this was an opportunity for women to have a voice and make a difference." Wading through a list like that to find what you‘re really after is an impossible task, but you shouldn‘t blame the search engine. It‘s true that your typical single word search, "tools" for example, on any of the popular web search engines will return anywhere from over 240 million hits (search lingo for individual web pages found) on Microsoft‘s Live.com search engine to nearly two billion hits on Google. The same could be said for anyone that complains about not being able to find anything on the Internet. tools The Waterioo Chronicle can be picked up at the following locations Chapters Bookstore 428 King St. N. Wordsworth Books 100 King St. S Forwell Variety 242 King St. N W The 7â€"11 256 King St. N Quick Trip Variety 347 Erb St. West Waterloo Adult Centre 185 King St. South Waterioo Adult Centre 605 Laureiwood Drive Kemwood Cigar & News Waterioo Town Square Unique Shoppette 41 King St. N Vincenzos 740 Belmont Ave. W Walper Tobacco Shop 15 King St. W. W Kâ€"W Bookstore 308 King St. W. "And the interesting â€" Doreen Hillier member For more information contact Hillier at 519â€"746 0440 or doreen.hillier@symâ€" patico.ca. "We tend to attract highâ€" achieving women who realâ€" ly want to see themselves and the region advance." "It‘s an exciting opportuâ€" nity to meet people who are the movers and shakers of this region. Gumprich encourages people to attend one of the monthly meetings and conâ€" sider joining the club. Members pay a $125 annual fee, not including the dinners, which cost $35 for members and $40 for guests. _ There is a $25 oneâ€"time charge for a newâ€"member kit. thing is that when MPs want to know what women think as a group, they contact our club because we represent women from all walks of life," she said. This allows you to find web pages that contain two or more words in a particuâ€" lar order. Most search engines will The most simple and effective way to improve your search results is to use phrase searching. Just as a master carpenâ€" ter would use different tools and techniques to transâ€" form a piece of stock into a beautiful tabletop, you should use more than one method to build your search. tively. If you don‘t find what you‘re looking for with a given set of terms, you can For instance, if you were interested in buying chip carving tools, you could try your search again with: "carving tools" chip purâ€" chasing Canada. Combining your phrase search with additional terms (search lingo for a word or other group of letâ€" ters or numbers) will give your search more context and can reduce the number of results even more. . Not bad for adding just one more word, but there are still enough pages to make the task of reading them all humanly impossiâ€" ble. "carving tools," the number of hits on Live.com is reduced to a mere 138,000 hits and Google‘s results are now just over 353,000 hits, a reduction of about 99.98 per cent on the pages you now need to wade through. If we change our single word search from "tools" to Indeed, this operator is so useful that "the bad guys" use it to find websites This is useful if you remember only a part of a web address. For instance, the "inurl:" operator finds hits with addresses (or URLs) conâ€" taining the next word in your search. Google lets you type in an advanced search at any time using search "operaâ€" tors" (search lingo for speâ€" cial words that change the way a search operates)}. Many offer an advanced search page that lets you "build" a search query by combining several different types of searches. So far we‘ve added and put words together in difâ€" ferent ways to improve our search results, but search engines also provide addiâ€" tional ways to refine our results. In our example, you could use the word "buyâ€" ing" instead of "purchasing" or even the phrase "for words _ that offer a particular type of program. ‘, you If they can figure out "buyâ€" _ how to break into one webâ€" asing" _ site‘s purchasing system e "for â€" that uses software with a unique word in the address, d and _ then the "inurl:" operator in difâ€" _ can be used to find other ve our _ vulnerable sites that use the search _ same software. _ _ Trying your searches out on several different search engines is a good idea since each engine has a different ranking scheme pushing different hits to the top of the list ... important if you are the type to only look There are many search engines dedicated to specifâ€" ic topics and specific types of content. Of course, when searchâ€" ing you are not limited to the Big Three of search engines (Google, Microsoft and Yahoo). I have used this on more than one occasion when I find a site‘s navigation sysâ€" tem less than useful. The "site:" operator which Google offers is also helpful to limit a search to a particular website. ® Visit _ the _ website http:!/mghiemstra.com/ for more "Bits of Life" columns and Michael‘s blog. Learning to use your search tools can make the adventure easier and more rewarding. The Internet is filled with so much information that finding the one page you need can be an adventure. Google is even letting you "roll your own" search engines using their techâ€" nologies. Yahoo has a search limitâ€" ed to items with a Creative Commons license. Microsoft Live is experiâ€" 3 menting | with search 5 macros that help limit search results to given topâ€" ics. There are always new pieces being developed. Google offers alerts that will eâ€"mail you whenever a new page is found given your search terms. Web searching is by no m means a stagnant field of & technology. T