GOING DIRECTLY TO A WEB SITE
If you know the address of a Web site (also known as the URL—Uniform Resource
Locator), you don’t need to search for the Web site to find it. You can simply type
the address in the Web Options panel.
To use the Web Options panel to type in a Web address:
1
If you are watching DIRECTV
®
programming, press the
TV/WEB
button on your
remote control or keyboard to go to the Web side of the service.
2
Press the
OPTIONS
button on your remote control or
OPTION
on your keyboard.
The Web Options panel appears.
3
Select
go to
from the Web Options panel, then press
on your remote control
or
RETURN
on your keyboard.
The Address panel appears.
4
Type the address of the Web site you want to visit.
Notice that the http:// part of the address is already filled in for you. Just type
the part of the address that starts with “www.”
5
Select
Go to Page
, then press
or
RETURN
.
You are taken to the Web address you entered.
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The
go to
button
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3
Type a word, phrase, question, or Web
address for Search to look up, then
press or
RETURN
.
Search looks for Web sites that match
the words you typed. It lists the matching
sites on a page called Search Results.
4
Look at the Web sites listed on the search
results page. Try to determine if any of
them meet your needs.
The search results page tells you how many Web pages the search function
found that match your search terms. Scroll through the list and check the first
few results to see if they sound helpful to you.
5
If you see a search result that seems useful, select it from the list, then press
or
RETURN
to go to that Web site. If not, change the words you are
searching for, and try a new search. You can use the
BACK
button on the
remote control or keyboard to return to the Search page.
After you go to a Web site from the search results page, you can use the
BACK
button on the remote control or keyboard to return to the search results
page—from there you can try another result from the list.
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Search tips
Finding what you want on the Web is largely a matter of learning to
search for the right words. Here are a few tips:
• Be specific. General terms will return too many results. Narrow your
terms to get more useful results. For example, use
pizza delivery in
San Francisco, not pizza.
• Don’t be afraid to use as many words as you need. In search terms,
shorter is not necessarily better. For example, use
hotels near 2000
Olympics in Sydney, Australia, not Olympics and not hotels.
• To find a specific phrase, put it inside of quotation marks. For example,
use
“Gone with the wind” in quotes, not gone with the wind.
