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Search Australia
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The following are the main features of Search Australia.
Search Australia only includes .au domains Search Australia has been set up to only include the domains ending in:
com.au, net.au, gov.au, edu.au, org.au, id.au, asn.au and selected sites.
Normally when you search using one of the major search engines you'll be
provided results which often list large overseas sites before Australian
sites. Search Australia thus prioritises Australian sites making it easier
to use the services of Australian businesses and organisations. Search Australia removes dozens of directory sites When people search often the only results they now get are directories
making it harder to find the actual size. Search Australia excludes dozens
of directory sites. Single letter access to search engines and the services I provide One of the major concerns I had is because around 95% of Australians
search using Google, that means Google is able to track the activities of
most Australians. By providing the ability to quickly use Bing and Yahoo
are well, those who are concerned about their privacy can quickly send a search request to an
alternate search engine. The theory is spread your searches across
multiple search providers and a single search provider only then sees a
smaller subset of your searches making it harder to profile you. You can enter any of the following letters and go direct to the search
engine, or enter the letter, a space and then what you want to search for,
and your criteria will be passed across to the search engine for you. G - Google B - Bing Y - Yahoo In addition, I provide clients with a number of services and these can
be accessed using a single letter, or a single letter followed by a
space and then the criteria. For example, the letter "j" followed by a
space and then a postcode will go direct to the JustLocal postcode page.
Entering the letter "w" followed by a space and then a word will go direct
to Word Check. Word Check provides a method to see if you are using using the preferred
Australian English spelling of a word and the ability to check the meaning of a word. J - JustLocal W- Word Check Keywords - Go direct to a site using a keyword As a result of reading an article on the top searched sites in
Australia I realised that when people search for the most popular
companies and brands they end up on a Google page showing search results
whereas they could have easily been sent direct to the desired site saving
time. In addition, often the business they are looking for is shown further
down the page or on the next page, which can mislead people causing them to go to the wrong site. Initially I started with the top 20 sites and then extended to the top
couple of hundred sites people search for.If you're looking for a company which is a household
name, chances are if you enter the commonly used name for the company
you'll go direct to their site. For example type in ANZ and you'll go
direct to the ANZ site. By using keyword access you save a considerable amount of time. How
much time you may ask. Below is a sample of the keywords you can use with
Search Australia. These keywords according to
Google are searched for around 70 million times a month. Many searches that
could just as easily go direct to the website. With the entire list
of keywords there would be over a billion
searches locally in Australia a year using the keywords. The search for the term Facebook by
itself would be close to 300 million times a year. Those searches end up displaying
Google search results. Entering Facebook or FB into Search
Australia and you go direct to Facebook. Next time you perform a search
and end up with a list of Google search results, ask yourself if perhaps
there is a better way. Gumtree Set Search Australia as your home page Much to my surprise when I've been assisting clients supporting their
computers and let them know an old trick I used which helps them identify if
their computer has had their browser hijacked. Add Search Australia as their
home page and if the page gets changed changes are their browser has been
hijacked. Handy keywords If find the following keywords I've added to the main list to be very
useful Weather, BOM - for the Bureau of Meteorology site. Privacy Please be aware that any search critera you enter into any search
engine is recorded somewhere. Nothing is private online. In terms of the data
entered into Search Australia your data will not be shared with others by
Online Connections and
will be treated with respect and appropriately confidentiality. The recent
NSA Prism scandal shows us that many others may have access to our online
data without our knowledge. Short of not using the internet that is
outside our control. Please enjoy Search Australia. I find Search Australia to be
extremely useful and I use it many times a day. Even when I want to
search using Google I use Search Australia and simply enter G before what
I want to search for. I don't lose any of the functionality of the search
engines and I gain direct access to many of the sites I use every day. I
hope you will find Search Australia justvas useful. |