Web Paddling: Search Me

February-March 2001

This is an article from WaveLength Magazine, available in print in North America and globally on the web.
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by Ted Leather

Have you ever spent hours looking for something you knew was there somewhere in your pile, but couldn’t find?

As the WaveLength internet site has grown in size, a similar problem confronted us—how to find something in nearly 800 pages of information. So we decided our whole site had to be searchable and we set up a search engine for it. The WaveLength Search engine works like those internet search engines with one big difference—it’s search area is the material on our site.

Let’s say you’re interested in information about kayaking in Thailand. Go to our Search page  and in the Search box type “Thailand”. The search engine will go through all 800 pages looking for any reference to Thailand and display all of the pages it finds.

In addition, it will list the most relevant pages first, displaying the title of the pages so you can see which issue the article was from, give a brief summary of the page, and best of all, give you direct access to that article via a link.

So next time you’re looking for something specific on our site, give our Wavelength Search a try. If you can’t find what you’re looking for on our site, our Search page also accesses another external search engine, About.com, which specialize in paddling information.

Now if I could just find that missing sock...

Ted Leather is the WaveLength Webmaster and operates Clayrose Internet Creations, an internet services company specializing in web site design
and management. Email: webadmin@WavelengthMagazine.com