Searching the Web

1) To find a business or a person's address on the web, go to www.qwestdex.com 
2) Choose either the "Business Listing" or the "Residential Listing" tab by clicking it.
3) Now you type in the name of the person or business. OR, if you don't know the name of the business, just type in the type of business. On qwestdex, there's a little box that's automatically checked that "includes surrounding areas." You should do a search with this box unchecked first and then do another one with it checked if you don't find what you're looking for.
4) You can have this program draw a map for you or give you driving directions. To do that, just click on the word "map" that's to the left of the address. There's also a box on the right somewhere that says "Map a location" and "Get Driving Directions." Click one of those and fill in the necessary information required on the screen.
5) You can do a similar search and mapping on the following sites: www.dogpile.com (under  "Search Tools," click on 'Maps'.) Or go to www.mapquest.com 

If you need to look anything else up on the web, from homeschooling to some kind of animal, Indian, city or whatever, go to one of the following sites and follow my tips to make your search successful:

I recommend www.google.com or www.yahoo.com or www.askjeeves.com The first two are the best at getting unbiased results, according to PCWorld in the fact that they clearly label the paid inclusions. I no longer endorse meta-search engines, like www.dogpile.com, www.metacrawler.com or www.mamma.com They don't usually show which of the results are paid for and which aren't. Why does that even matter? Because you may want unbiased information and you're not as likely to get it from a site that paid to be on there. Of course, if you're looking to buy something, then go for the paid results!

1) To get good results in a search, don't just type in George Washington. That will get you results on everything from Washington state to D.C. to the president you may be looking for to a whole bunch of Georges you've never heard of. To exclude most of those other results, put the phrase George Washington in quotes, like this: "George Washington"(This works in Google...and I would assume others as well.)
2) Another way is to use Boolean operators. The three main ones that we need are: AND, OR, and NOT. 
A) Type in George AND Washington. That ought to force the search engine to only bring up results that include both of those words. 
B) If you want anything with George or Washington, then type in George OR Washington.
C)  If you want one word and not the other...for example, you want to look up stuff about Washington state and you don't want stuff about Washington D.C. cluttering up the results. In that case, you'd type Washington AND state NOT D.C.. (As you may have noticed, you can also combine Boolean operators.)
3) There's usually some help available on the search engines site to help you get better results as well. I recommend checking those out if these instructions don't help you.