Schonhose

Most pages I visit have it in one form or another. Heck, it is even on this page you’re visiting right now. But somehow it is the hardest thing to find for most users. Those of you thinking that I’m talking about the Paypal button are wrong (although I wouldn’t mind if you hit that button if you’ve downloaded something nice from this site). I’m actually talking about the search button.

For those of you who are not aware of this wonderful feature, let me explain. Allow me to get theoretical for just one second here. Suppose you got a question or a problem. Wouldn’t it be great if you could ask other people for help? Well, your dreams have come true, these days the internet is full of useful community places were people meet online to discuss a certain subject. Let’s call these places forums. Pretty exiting thus far right?

On these forums you can ask your question and people will come up with suggestions or fixes. Pretty neat huh? So the easiest way to get a fix for your problem would be to drop the question on the forum and wait. WRONG!!

Let me elaborate. What if someone else has had almost the same problem you have. For sake of argument, lets assume the solution for the problem is a well known fact in the community. See were this is heading? If you had used the search to see if someone else had the same problem and got it fixed, you wouldn’t have to wait several hours,days,weeks for an answer.

So using the search actually saves you time. Not to mention it will save the time of other people answering the same question over and over and over and over (well, you get the point) again, so they can focus on the ones which haven’t been answered.

There you have it, the tip of today: Saving time by using the search.