You might have been searching for music related items on the Internet for some time. Today, at hotallegro.com, searching is made easier with colorful buttons especially for searches relating to music.  Each of these buttons is assigned to a genre, a common part of a musical instrument, something related to a musician, or a media.  Here are some examples on how you an use hotallegro.com to speed up your search.

Getting Encyclopedia Articles Relating to Your Search from more than one Encyclopedias

You can click on the encyclopedia button to get a list of encycopedias (Wikipedia,Citizendium, and the 1911 Britannica Encyclopedia) after you have entered your search string.  You can click on the button for encyclopedia of your choice to see if there is an article relating to your search string.  In this way, you don't have to browse through a list of search results for the various encyclopedias avaiable.

Getting Videos Relating to Your Search from more than one Video Sites

You can click on the videos button to get a list of video sites (Youtube,Metacafe, and Vimeo) after you have entered your search string.  You can click on the button for encyclopedia of your choice to see if there is an article relating to your search string.  In this way, you don't have to browse through a list of search results for the various encyclopedias avaiable.

Adding a Genre to your Search String

If you, for example, want to know if a singer sings Cantonese pop songs, you can add "Cantopop" to the name of the singer in your search string by clicking on the Cantopop button.  In this way, you do not have to type in "Cantopop", thus reducing your typing strokes with can in turn, speed up your search.

Adding an Instrument Part to your Search String

You can add a common part of an instrument to your search string by clicking on the button for the part. For example, if you want to find out if a composer uses that keyboard, you can click on the button after you have entered his or her name as your search string. In this way, you don't have to type in the word "Keyboard".

Adding a Listed Topic to your Search String

You can add listed Topic on to your search string by clicking on the button for the particular button.  Topics included on on hotallegro.com are instruments, midi files, MP3s, composers, artists, reviews, screensavers, and wallpapers.  For example, if you want to know whether there is any wallpaper showing an image of a singer available, you can click on the wallpapers button to add "wallpapers" to the name of the singer in your search string. 
 
Getting information on a composer

You can get a list of composers by clicking on the composer button on the navigation menu located on the top of the web page.

Getting information  an recording artist

You can get a list of recording artists by clicking on the composer button on the navigation menu located on the top of the web page.

Getting the overall Search Results Faster

You can click on the go button to get results for your search after you entered your search string or have appended something to it.

Searching on hotallegro.com is not restricted to items related to music.  To experience what I have been saying in this article, heed on to hotallegro.com.