Dear searcher3b-ga;
Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question.
Since your basic question is “How do I correctly ask the question on a
search engine to access these ratings on various topics?” I will
explain this rather than point you out to all the MANY places where
this can be done.
Keep in mind that searching for information is often a process.
Sometime, it can be compared to walking a mortar shell in on a target.
You keep shooting until you eventually hit the target.
Let’s use the search engine, GOOGLE ://www.google.com (but you can
use whichever one you like as long as it is a good one).
If I want to find a place that will tell me if a product is better
than other similar products, shall we say, televisions, for example,
in the GOOGLE search field I will type:
COMPARE TELEVISION
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=COMPARE+TELEVISION
Alternatively, you can change your search terms to plural, in this
manner:
COMPARE TELEVISIONS
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=COMPARE+TELEVISIONS&btnG=Google+Search
By clicking on the links I have provided you will quickly see that
several product comparison sites (and there are many) have already
appeared. Go to them and see which ones are searchable so you can
modify your search directly on their web page for the specific kinds
of televisions you would like to see comparisons of.
You can also approach it this way:
COMPARE ZENITH TELEVISIONS
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=COMPARE+ZENITH+TELEVISIONS
This hasn’t necessarily eliminated all other brands, but it does let
you know that the ones that appeared actually do use Zenith
televisions when making television comparisons.
To be more specific, you can do this:
COMPARE ZENITH “FLAT PANEL” TELEVISIONS
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=COMPARE+ZENITH+%E2%80%9CFLAT+PANEL%E2%80%9D+TELEVISIONS
This not only returns sites that use Zenith televisions when making
comparisons, but specifically those that use Zenith television that
have flat panel screens. Incidentally, the quotation marks around
“Flat Panel” tells the search engine, “Only show me the links that
have the words “flat” and “panel” next to each other in exactly the
order I have specified”. You can experiment with this in your searches
by using terms like: “Zenith flat panel”, “Zenith Wide Screen”, and so
on, with and without the quotation marks and you will see what I mean.
Now, there are also other search terms that will bring up other types
of comparisons:
COMPARE PRICE TELEVISION
COMPARE SIZE TELEVISION
COMPARE MODEL TELEVISION
COMPARE BRANDS TELEVISION
You can also try to change it up a bit. Remember, HUMANS write web
pages so you are at the mercy of how humans express themselves. There
might be two dozen more places where you can compare prices but they
don’t seem to be showing up when you type COMPARE ZENITH TELEVISIONS.
Why? Because the HUMANS who wrote those web pages saw fit to use the
key words PRICE COMPARISION instead of COMPARE PRICE…making sense now?
These searches then might return two dozen more pages that you never
saw before:
PRICE COMPARISION TELEVISION
SIZE COMPARISION TELEVISION
MODEL COMPARISION TELEVISION
BRANDS COMPARISION TELEVISION
By the same token, you can change TELEVISION to TV, T.V., HDTV,
“PROJECTION SCREEN”, “BIG SCREEN, “WIDE SCREEN” or any other name that
a television might be known by. Interestingly enough, (again, because
of the human element and mentality involved) don’t disount the
possibly of slang. Just to see what would happen I searched using
these terms: COMPARE BOOB TUBES. On the first page of my search
results I found a comparison of Toshiba Televisions that showed me an
$810.07 price difference between models. That’s humans for you.
See what I mean? If you want to find out what other consumers think of
the products they have already bought, you can search this way:
REVIEWS ZENITH TELEVISION
OPINIONS ZENITH TELEVISION
GUIDE ZENITH TELEVISION
RESEARCH ZENITH TELEVISION
OWNERS ZENITH TELEVISION
CUSTOMERS ZENITH TELEVISION
That’s basically it. It’s a matter of putting the right phrase in
front of your item name or description and walking it in until you hit
pay dirt.
That is how a patient web researcher does it.
Below you will find that I have carefully defined my search strategy
for you in the event that you need to search for more information. By
following the same type of searches that I did you may be able to
enhance the research I have provided even further. I hope you find
that that my research exceeds your expectations. If you have any
questions about my research please post a clarification request prior
to rating the answer. Otherwise, I welcome your rating and your final
comments and I look forward to working with you again in the near
future. Thank you for bringing your question to us.
Best regards;
Tutuzdad-ga
INFORMATION SOURCES
Google ://www.google.com
SEARCH STRATEGY
SEARCH ENGINE USED:
Google ://www.google.com
SEARCH TERMS USED:
Refer to terms outlined in answer above |
