TITLE
    Mac OS 8.5: How Search the Internet Saves Time
Article ID:
Created:
Modified: 		58078
9/10/98
10/14/98
TOPIC

    How does Search the Internet save time when searching web servers?

DISCUSSION

    The Search Internet section of Sherlock provides the ability to quickly search the Internet using your choice of popular search engines. Additional Internet search sites can be easily added by dropping their files onto the System Folder. Search site files go into the Internet Search Sites folder.

    Find by Content and Search Internet requires QuickTime 3.

    The Search Internet feature is the fastest and easiest way to search Internet search engines since you search multiple sites with a single search.

    To access the Search Internet section, click its tab in the Sherlock window. To perform an Internet search, type the keywords for the information you want in the Words field. Select the checkbox for each Internet search engines to use for the search, then click the Search button. For example, typing "PowerBook 1400 and memory" would perform a search on the selected Internet search sites for these keywords. The results of the search are presented in a window, ranked by relevance:

    To sort the search results by Name or by Site, click the column heading. To view a summary of a link in the list, click its name. A short summary of the link is presented in the window below the search results. To open the link with your web browser software, click the link name in the summary window.

    Internet search site files may be periodically updated for changes in search engines or to take advantage of newer features. When performing an Internet search with a search source file, an automatic check is performed to determine if an updated search source is available. If such an update is available, a window will appear:

    To accept the update, click the Update button. You can also manually check for updates by selecting the Update Search Sites command in the Find menu.

Document Information
Product Area: Mac OS System Software
Category: Mac OS 8.5
Sub Category: System Software Components

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