it is no secret...

you may or may not know that i used to work at the library. yes, it was by choice. and worse than that... i loved it. i would still consider it one of my favorite all time job, my second favorite even. my first? what i'm doing now. sorry if that chesses you out, but it's just true. although on a hard day, the library gets bumped up to number one.

it has recently come to my attention that i may know a secret that is not known to the average citizen. it is a trick i learned during my illustrious career as a librarian assistant. so, as an act of benevolence, i bestow on you the best tip in internet searching i have found...

the quotes. if you use an internet site to search for something on the internet (called a search engine, like google), you can search for something more accurately if you put what you are looking for in quotes. like if you are looking up song lyrics, for example (as i was recently doing for my father in law). if you type in....

"it is no secret what god can do"
the search engine looks for those exact words, in that order, all together in a phrase. if you just type in...

it is no secret what god can do
then the search engine looks for any sites with any of those words and will list sites that have any of those words in them the most first. does that make sense? anyway, putting the phrase in quotes just helps eliminate a lot of the irrelevant sites that come up.

as my internet savvy husband did not know this trick, it occurred to me that it may not be common knowledge. i wish all of you happy and effective internet searching. give it a try and let me know.

probably none of you read this, but a big shout out to all my homies at the carnegie library of pittsburgh, downtown branch...thanks for all the good times and memories.