Chapter 6. THE PRINCIPLE OF ONIONS
The Principle of Onions: When searching, it's better to start with very specific search queries and then get more and more general. If you start with more general queries you will tend to get overwhelmed with results.
Google indexes over four billion Web pages but admits that they don't index the entire Internet. The Internet Archive, a collection of older copies of Web site pages, is by itself well over ten billion pages. And the Internet is getting larger, not smaller.
It's crucial that you start your Internet search right by structuring a query such that you get a limited number of results—otherwise you're going to get overwhelmed with information. If the very narrow query doesn't work, you should slowly ...
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