Quick Search Tips

Quick Search Tips New!

• Using capitalization can result in better performance when using Search Companion.

For instance, Mary Smith may produce better results than mary smith.

• If you didn't find what you wanted on the first search engine, choose automatically send your search to other search engines to submit your search to other engines that are appropriate for your query.

• If you like having an animated character, but want to use a different one, choose Change Preferences, then with a different character to choose the helper you like.


Speed Up Those Searches New!

Windows can create an index of the files on your computer to speed up searching.

• Open Search, and then choose Change preferences and then With Indexing Service (for faster local searches).

"Go" Places Quicker on the Internet New!

Many common Internet searches can be performed quickly using the "go" shortcut. For example, if you open Search in Internet Explorer and type go yellow pages, the page will jump to a form where you can lookup a business phone number. Likewise, typing go email automatically brings up a form for searching for a person's email.

You can even type go yellow pages Acme Corp to automatically search for the phone number of a company called Acme Corp. And you can type go amzn to look up the value of a stock quote (in this case Amazon's).