Search engines
are the keys to the vast knowledgebase distributed over
the web. Agreed. At the same time it is also true that
search engines do not provide you the direct answer
to your query. What you get is a list of documents the
search engine thought relevant to your search query.
You need to browse through these documents in the hope
of getting the answer. Though search engines are getting
sharper at finding the relevant documents - it is still
a long way when they will fully comprehend the meaning
of your query and you still do not get a direct answer!
It is here that the forums provide an alternative. Previously
known as bulletin boards or message boards, forums are
the best thing a net newbie can come across. You can
find all the information you need by joining and
querying in forums. Most of the big and reputed
forums are moderated by experienced people. As a forum
user you benefit from the accumulated knowledge of these
learned persons.
You can expect a wide range of viewpoints and beliefs
found for a certain query or issue. This gives you a
better understanding of that particular issue.
You can always rely on getting some helpful soul at
some forum to guide you to find answer to your query.
At the minimum you will get reference to resources which
contain answer to your queries.
So you don t have to change your keyword combination,
try
different phrases or different search engines to get
what you are looking for. All you need to do in a forum
is to express
explicitly what you are looking for.
Archived forum topics sometimes provide the best way
to find an answer to very obscure questions, such
as how to fix a particular software problem, a loan
problem, a financial problem the list is endless! There
are thousands of forums catering to different topics
and areas of discussion. Find out which one covers your
query topic, join the forum and post your question and
wait for a flood of replies!
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