STEP 1: Go to www.google.com and begin by searching for what you do know; Da Vinci.Results from this search lead you to more information; his first name "Leonardo." (good, we now have more information!)
STEP 2: Now begin a 'new' search and enter Leonardo Da Vinci.Bingo! Search result #2 visually shows me a picture of what I'm looking for. It's called "The Last Supper."
STEP 3: Now enter all the information you now know (followed by the word prints): Last Supper Leonardo Da Vinci printsVoila! Now there are many choices to choose from, now focused to weed out thousands of undesirable search results..
Now, are they prints or posters? Some people call them prints, others call them posters. Technically, what you're looking is almost always a print (some people prefer the term "art print"). While both basically ink on paper, a poster is usually something that is hung in a public place, like a movie or theater poster or placard. But try your search both ways.
Of course, if you are looking for a specific type of print like a serigraph, limited edition, canvas transfer (commonly abbreviated as "L/E" or "LE"), or giclee, enter the appropriate term instead of "prints."
Yeah, but I'm still wading through a sea of Da Vinci prints. But now I have 12,000 stores trying to sell me Da Vinci's Last Supper, now what? Who's got the best price? Who can I trust?Admittedly, our industry is very competitive. Most of the larger Internet merchants, while you can't blame them, have an affiliate program, which pays a website owner a commission off traffic referrals. The problem is that they are so many of them, you keep getting led to the same place.
Websites such as Allposters.com, Barewalls.com and Art.com have done a wonderful job marketing their products, but to the web shopper, it can get a bit frustrating being referred back to the same website over and over again through these affiliate websites.
Refine your search even further. One way to weed out these irritating duplications is to put a minus ("-") sign in your search. The minus sign tells the search engine to not to display web pages that have the words directly preceding the minus sign (i.e. "da vinci last supper -allposters.com -allposters").
Tip! Enclosing a search phrase in quotes tells Google to find an 'exact' match. "last supper" as opposed to last supper (without the quotes) often produces more focused results.
Make it easier! I would recommend giving Froogle (www.froogle.com) a try. Froogle is Google's recently introduced shopping search engine, which only returns results for products available for sale. It's a great way to filter out the 'junk,' compare prices and view a preview of the product image (thumbnail images are displayed). But remember, you should also check the a merchant's shipping charge, as many E-tailers will lower the product price, but build back some of this discount into the freight they charge.
Here's the same query in Froogle, which I think you'll find much more manageable.http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=da+vinci+last+supper+prints
I hope this article has been informative and will aid you in the future.
Happy searching.
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