Adventure Travel
Guided Tours: Hiking Tours, Climbing Tours, Biking Tours, Walking Tours, Driving Tours, Site Seeing Tours, City and Restaurant Tours, National Park Tours, Safari & Jungle Tours.
Boating: Whitewater Rafting, River Boating, Cannel Boating Tours, Canoeing, Kayaking, Expedition Cruises, Island Cruises, Ocean Cruises & Sailing. Photographic Tours, Wineries or Brewery Tours, Cave Tours, Bird Watching, Fishing, Hunting Tours, History Tours, Educational and Architecture Tours, Agriculture Tours, Sports Tours, Art Tours, Ecology Tours, Train Tours, Storm Chasing Tours. Float the Grand Canyon, Hike the Appalachian Trail, Cycle through Provence, Trek through Bhutan, Surf in Panama, Ski the Andes, Climb Half Dome, Ride horseback through Mongolia, Bike and hike in the Canadian Rockies, Safari in Tanzania, Dive the Great Barrier Reef, Sail in Antarctica, Machu Picchu, Mountain bike in the Rockies, camel trek in Morocco. A lot of Self-Guided Tours too.

Adventure Schools & Courses
Learn to Scuba Dive, Sailing Courses, Kayaking Courses, Climbing Courses, Wilderness and Survival Courses, Adventure Camps, Leadership and Teamwork Courses, Boot Camps, Space Camps, Hang Gliding, Skiing, Racing Schools, Sport Camps, Training Courses in Self-Defense, Fire Arms Training, Art & Cooking Courses to name just a few.

Adventure Racing
Multi Sport Competitions, Triathlons, Marathons, Bike Races, Road Races, Mountain Bike Races to name just a few.

Adventure Jobs
Resort Jobs, National Park Jobs, Cruise Line jobs, Summer Camp Jobs, Counselors, Guides, Instructors & Forestry to name just a few.

Volunteering Vacations
Volunteering in the US and around the world: Provide Health Care, Help Delivering Food, Building Homes, Training People, Teaching, Mentoring, Big Brother & Big Sister to name just a few.

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Internet Searching Tips for the World Wide Web,

"Knowing how to ask a question and knowing how to analyze the answers"

When searching the internet you have to use more then one search engine in order to do a complete search. Using one search engine will narrow your findings and possibly keep you from finding what you're looking for because most search engines are not perfect and are sometimes unorganized, flawed and manipulated. This is why I'm organizing the Internet because search engines are flawed and thus cannot be fully depended on for accuracy.
Example: Using the same exact keywords on 4 different search engines I found the website that I was looking for at the top in the number one position, on 2 of the 4 search engines, and I could not find that same website on the other search engine unless I searched several pages deep. So one search engine is flawed or manipulated and the other search engine is not. There are chances that the webpage you are looking for is not titled correctly so you may have to use different keywords or phrases in order to find it. But even then this is no guarantee because search engines also use other factors when calculating the results for particular words or phrases. And what all those other factors are and how they work is not exactly clear. Search engines are in fact a highly important Social Service, just like a Congressman or President.
If you honestly can not say exactly how and why you performed a particular action, then how the hell are people supposed to believe you or understand what they need to do in order to fix your mistake or at least confirm there was no mistake? Transparency, Truth and knowing the Facts for these particular services are absolutely necessary. People have the right not to be part of a Blind Experiment. These Systems need to be Open, Monitored and Audited in order for us to work accurately and efficiently.   Human Search Engine Tips    Internet Safety
In the mean time when searching the Internet, going several pages deep on search engines will also help find information because the first 10 choices are sometimes irrelevant. I have sometimes found things that I'm looking for 30 pages deep. You will also find different key words, phrases and characters within the search results that may also help increase your odds of finding what you're looking for. Sometimes checking a websites links on their resources page may also help you find websites that are not listed correctly in search engines. Web Searching for Information needs to be a Science.

Most search engines like Google have Advanced Searching Tools found on the side or at the bottom of their search pages.

Knowing where to type in certain characters in your search phrases also helps you find what you're looking for.

If you want to limit your searches on Google to only education websites or government websites
 then type in "site:edu" or "site:gov" after your key word or search phrase.
For example Teaching Mathematical Concepts site:edu
For searching a specific website type in "neutrino site:harvard.edu after the word or search phrase.

To narrow your searches to file types like PowerPoint, excel or pdf's then type in filetype:ppt after the word.

For search ranges use 2 periods between 2 numbers, like "Wii $200..$300."

Using quotes or a + or - within your search phrases. Example, imagine you want to find pages that have references to both President Obama and President Bush on the same page.
You could search this way: +President Obama+President Bush
Or if you want to find pages that have just President Obama and not President Bush then your search would be
President Obama -President Bush.

If you are looking for sand sharks search engines will give you results with the word sand and sharks but if you use quotation marks around "sand sharks" it will help narrow your search.

Using "~" (tilde) before a search term yields results with related terms.

Conversions try typing "50 miles in kilometers" or 100 dollars in Canadian dollars.

Use Google to do math just enter a calculation as you would into your computer's calculator
(i.e. * corresponds to multiply, / to divide, etc)

To find a time in a certain place type in    Time: Danbury, Ct

Just got a phone call and want to see where the call is from  Type in 3 digit # area code
Type any address into Google's main search bar for maps and directions.
While on Google Maps select the day of the week and the time of day for the traffic forecast.

What are people Searching for and what Key words are they using

Search Query Trends      Google Insights Search Trends  Google Trends  Google      Yahoo Alexa Web Trends

You can learn even more great search tips by visiting this website Search Engine Watch.

Learning Boolean Logic can also help with improving your Internet searching skills.

Boolean Operators

 

Web Search Strategies

These are just some of the web searching tips that I have learned using the Internet for the last 10 years, which has qualified me as a Human Search Engine. This was one of the main reasons for creating this website. Not just to have a great resource, but also as an absolute necessity. You have to create your own knowledge base. Because if you want to find things easily, it's a good idea to be organized and to know your sources. And since I do not allow automatic submissions to my Human Search Engine I have better control and protection against abuse and fraud that plague other search engines. The only weakness in a human controlled link database, or Human Edited Directory, is that sometimes the ULR is sold which makes the website go down or point to another website that is totally different from the original. This also happens to other search engines so this is not unique to just human edited directories. 

20 Search Engines      Search Engine List      100 Search Engines     Add a Search Engine to your Website

Search Engine News & Information       Web Pro News     Directories     Internet Browsers       Internet Access Tools

 
You wont find everything on the internet because there are truths about our world that have not yet been posted.
But if you now how to use the internet you will be considerably more educated and a lot more informed about the world, that is because TV and news papers will only say so much and are sometimes guilty of manipulating the truth because of money and corporate influence.

Manipulating search results for money should be against the law or at least clearly stated. Especially knowing that 90% of internet users do not have the time or the skills to do effective searches using Internet search engines.

Eli Pariser: Beware online "Filter Bubbles"  (Youtube Video about Search Engine Manipulation)

Internet Safety & Scam Alerts        Media Literacy        Human Search Engine

Google announced on 7/25/2008 that it had indexed over 1 trillion unique URL's.   Size of the Internet    Zettabytes
In the December 2011 survey, Netcraft received responses from 555,482,744 websites. Up from 156 million in 2008.
Apache is responsible for more than 60% of this month's total growth of 4.3 million sites.

Over 2 Billion People on the Internet      Internet Users by Country   Internet Society    Internet Statistics    New Media

Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.    Website History Archive

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