If you need to find a site written in a specific language, use Alta Vista which allows you to choose a language before you search, with a drop down menu. Babel Fish will allow you to translate the page when you have one in a language you don’t understand.

Sometimes pictures are the only way to be sure that you are looking for the right thing. Above the google search box is a link called images. Perhaps you have just seen a baboon but you don’t what it is called. Using the images box you could key in monkey AND blue face OR red bottom. When you have found a picture you can go to the sites that display it and get its common name and often its scientific name as well, then you can use its name to search for more information.

Lastly don’t forget right click. If you have a page of results that you like from a search you don’t have to keep going back and forward. Just right click on a link and choose open in a new window. To open and close a single site this way takes less time than reloading a search result page each time.

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