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Tip 5: Use Regional Search Services, Directories, and Databases
It's so easy to fall into the trap of using US-based search engines (and, it's true, their
databases are the biggest in the world). But I believe it is critical to use search
engines, directories, and databases that are country- and region-specific, or
language-specific. These international sites focus on collecting data from a particular
part of the world and also offer more language options than US-based services.
Don't just think in terms of search engines-local phone and email directories can be
invaluable.
Tip 6: Search in the Native Language
If you really want to exploit the power of an international search engine, directory, or
database, you need to search in the native language. Doing so will vastly improve
your chances for finding what you seek. Also, remember that many if not most
international databases-for example, phone directories-only list information in the
native language, so searching the online Moscow phone book for a name in English
will produce zero results because all the listings are in Russian Cyrillic.
Look at the difference between searching using Google in English and in Russian
[Emercom Russia] with 32K hits vs. [M4C POCClt1lt1] with 1.25M hits and, more
importantly, the Emercom site as the top result:
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EMERCOM divides Russia into nine regions, supporting 89 oblasts "EMERCOM of
Russia," publication of the Ministry of Extraordinary Situation s, p 13 .
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Ministry for Extraordinary Situations [EMERCOMJ - Russian and ...
The Ministry of Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and .
of Natural Disasters (EMERCOM of Russia -- also called the Ministry for .
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