Digital Tools for Effective Web Searching

The present chapter focuses on the art of web searching. Every online information should fulfil the criterion of 5 Cs—current, concise, concrete, clean and contextual. However, this seems to be a big challenge in the present era of information explosion. The vast networks have unimaginable silos of information. People have been made to believe (albeit falsely) that the internet is the vast repository of the ‘quality information’ which is easily accessible through a simple search. However, this is not the case. There are common and specific search operators and commands for effective web searching on various websites. The present chapter outlines many free resources available to web surfers in order to fetch relevant search results compatible with 5 Cs model. The effective web searching techniques by using various tools and techniques can extend a helping hand to the netizens and to sift the ‘information’ from the ‘noise’.