If your browser has a built-in search bar (or supports searching in the address bar),

如果你的瀏覽器有內鍵的搜尋框（或者網址列本身就是搜尋欄）

you can use that for convenience. Or you can go straight to the search engine you want.

你可以就近使用它，或者到你要使用的搜尋引擎網頁

I'm going to use Google.

現在我要使用的是Google

The truth is, Google is a very good search engine. Most of the time, it can find what

事實上，谷歌是一個很好的搜尋引擎。 大多數時間

you're looking for, even if you don't know what you're doing. But it can't hurt to learn

它都能找到你要的，即便是你不知道該怎麼辦。

a few strategies.

學一些新方法也無傷大雅

Say we're looking for recipes online, but we're not sure what we want to make. We'll

舉例來說，我們要上線找食譜，但不確定要怎麼搜尋時

keep it simple and just start typing the word "recipes."

我們就很簡單地鍵入「recipes (食譜）」這個字

This prompts the search box to give us a list of suggestions. Suggestions are great because

搜尋框的提示字元會給我們一堆建議的字串。這些建議字串很讚，因為

they can give you an idea for a search that you might not have thought of. You can click

他們在你毫無頭緒時，等於給你搜尋的想法。你可以

one of the suggestions, or just keep typing. As you can see, you don't need to worry about

點擊其中任何一個，或者繼續鍵入，毋需擔心

case, punctuation, or even using complete sentences. Hopefully we'll find some good

大小寫，標點符號，甚至使用完整句子。我們就能指望找到些很棒

cookie recipes.

餅乾食譜

These are our search results. There are also some ads at the top, and sometimes you'll

這些是我們搜尋結果，上方還有些廣告，有時候你也會

find them to the right too. If you see what you're looking for, you can click the link

在左邊看到廣告。如果發現正好有你要找的，可以點擊這些連結

to go to the webpage. If not, you may want to reconsider your search terms; for example,

連到網頁去，如果不是，可以重新考慮你要搜尋的條件，例如

you could make them more specific, or search for different words all together.

讓它更具體，或者將不同的字彙放在一起搜尋

Suppose we don't want cookies with chocolate in them. We can tell the search engine to

假設我們不要餅乾食譜中，含有巧克力原料的。我們可以告訴搜索引擎

exclude those results by typing a hyphen (or a minus sign)… followed by the word we want

利用連結號（或是減號）把搜尋結果中含有巧克力的去除....即後方跟著

to exclude. Notice that there is no space after the hyphen. So it's "recipes cookies

我們要排除的字。請注意，連結號後沒有空格。所以，它是「食譜餅乾

-chocolate."

-巧克力」

This should have gotten rid of all of the chocolate chip cookie recipes. There's still

這些是去除掉巧克力脆片後的餅乾食譜，還有

a pretty good variety to choose from. But I see that there's sort of a sugar cookie

一大堆可供選擇。但這裡我也看到有一些甜餅乾

recipe here, and that sounds really good… so I'm going to try searching for that to

的食譜，感覺相當不錯...所以我也儘可能試著

get as many recipes as I can.

找到更多食譜

We want to put "sugar cookies" in quotes so Google searches for that specific phrase.

我們把「甜餅乾（sugar cookie）」擺進引號內，讓Google去找這一組特定的詞彙

Otherwise, we might get results for other types of cookies that just happen to have

否則，我們可能找到恰巧有

sugar in the ingredients.

糖被放在原料中的其它種餅乾

These results look good because we have a lot of recipes to choose from, and they're

結果好像不錯，我們有一大堆可選，

all pretty much what we're looking for.

它們確實也符合我們要找的

However, we could refine them even more using the options below the search box.

而我們可以使用搜尋框下方的選項，更加細分他們

Here, we have different types of content to choose from, like images, maps, and shopping.

此處，我們有不同類型的內容可選，如圖片，地圖和購物選擇。

To view even more options, open the menu that says More.

要瀏覽更多選項，點開寫著「更多」的項目

This is also where you can access special search tools that'll let you filter your results.

這也是你可以用來連結讓你篩選結果的特殊搜尋工具

These options will change depending on what you're looking for, giving you even more control

這項選項也會改變，依照你尋找的，並且

over the pages, resources, and other things that you find.

在網頁、來源和你找到的內容，給你更多主控權

For now, why don't we do a visual search for cookie recipes by switching over to Images?

現在，我們不妨切換到圖像，去做餅乾食譜的視覺搜尋?

Now we can just browse through pictures to see if there's anything we like.

透過瀏覽圖片，看看有沒有我們喜歡的

These look really good…

這些實在太讚了

But wouldn't it be great if we could just watch a video to learn how to make cookies?

而如果我們能看一段短片來學做餅乾呢?

We can do that. All we have to do is switch over to Videos—again, using the options

其實也辦得到啦，只要切換到視頻，再一次利用選項

near the top of the page.

在靠近網頁上端

This will give us a lot of how-to videos, which should really come in handy.

這裡會找到一票「如何」開頭的短片，真的很方便

Now you can experiment with your own search terms. And just remember that most of the

你可以用你的詞彙來實驗搜尋一下，記得喔！大部分時間裡

time, more specific search terms yield better results.

詞彙越具體，搜尋效果越佳。