InK4DEV Week – Information and Knowledge for Development, 4th Edition
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InK4DEV Week – Information and Knowledge for Development, 4th Edition
Entebbe, Uganda (24th – 28th Sept, 2012)
CTA is an ACP-EU institution working in the field of information for development.
It operates under the ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement. Its headquarters are in The Netherlands.
Using the web for Research and information
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Objectives
You will learn :• About the different types of search
engines• How to perform simple and advanced
searches using google search engine• How to perform targeted searches• How to translate and personalize your
searches
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Different Types of Searches ….
• Search can be performed either through a search engine or a directory.
• A search engine is automated while a directory service is compiled by humans.
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Searching with Google
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Searching with Google
Expand the “More” link to search more content types
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Searching with Google
Expand the “More search tools” link to see different search tools
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Searching with Google
For advanced search options
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Introduction to search engines
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Searching with Google
By default Google returns only pages that match all your search terms.
You can tailor searches to return specific results
If you search for … Google won’t find …children kids
crop cultivation
cheap inexpensive
If you search for …
Google won’t find …
NYC New York City
CTA Technical Centre for …
GNP Gross National Product
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Google Advanced Search
“…“ : exact phrase e.g. "to be or not to be" - : forbidden terms e.g. cow -mad * : words starting with e.g. people*NEAR: adjacent words e.g. (stock NEAR exchange) OR : logical expression e.g. (plan OR programme)Time: Nairobi ~ synonym
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Google Advanced Search
[Site:countrycode] restricts results to a country (two letter country codes)[Filetype:] retrieves only specified formats[related:] lists web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page.[after:] modified after a given date e.g. after:DD/MM/AAAA [before:] modified before a given date e.g. before:DD/MM/AAAA100miles in km
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Google Advanced Search
[[allintitle:] restricts the results to those with all of the query words in the title.[intitle:] restricts the results to documents containing that word in the title. [define:] provides a definition of words gathered from various online sources.
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Advanced Search with Google
Usage Rights e.g. CC
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Targeted Searches – Discussions lists
Groups: http://groups.google.com/ Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/
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Targeted Searches – Discussions lists
A Google targeted search for discussions related to a particular topic
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Language Search and Tools
Search for content in different languages and get it served in your preferred language: http://translate.google.com
Translated search: http://www.google.com/language_tools
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Search Services…
Books: http://books.google.com
Journals: http://www.scirus.org
Scholarly literature: http://scholar.google.com
Projects: http://aida.developmentgateway.org
News: http://news.google.com
Search with related links http://www.exalead.com/search
Google Baraza: http://www.google.com/baraza/en
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Information Delivery Services…
Google Alerts: www.google.com/alerts Development news aggregator: www.newsfordev.org Zunia: www.zunia.org
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Google Alerts: a content monitoring service
The Google Alerts automatically notifies users when new content from news, web, blogs, video and/or discussion groups matching a set of search terms selected by the user is posted on the Internet.
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Google Alerts: notifications
Notifications can be sent by email (various options) as an RSS feed or displayed on the users iGoogle page.
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Use your Google account to access
alerts !
http://alerts.google.com
Google Alerts: practicum
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Google Alerts: notifications via RSS