In K 4 DEV Week Information and Knowledge

In. K 4 DEV Week – Information and Knowledge for Development, 4 th Edition Using the web for Research and information Entebbe, Uganda (24 th – 28 th 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.

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

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.

Searching with Google

Searching with Google Expand the “More” link to search more content types

Searching with Google Expand the “More search tools” link to see different search tools

Searching with Google s s d e c r Fo a n a v d e h arc o n o i t p

Introduction to search engines

Searching with Google By default Google If you search for … returns only children pages that match crop all your search cheap terms. You can tailor searches to return specific results Google won’t find … kids cultivation inexpensive If you search for … Google won’t find … NYC New York City CTA Technical Centre for … GNP Gross National Product

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

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/AAAA 100 miles in km

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.

Advanced Search with Google Usage Rights e. g. CC

Targeted Searches – Discussions lists Groups: http: //groups. google. com/ Groups: http: //groups. yahoo. com/

Targeted Searches – Discussions lists A Google targeted search for discussions related to a particular topic

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

Translated search: practicum

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

Information Delivery Services… Google Alerts: www. google. com/alerts Development news aggregator: www. newsfordev. org Zunia: www. zunia. org

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.

Google Alerts: notifications Notifications can be sent by email (various options) as an RSS feed or displayed on the users i. Google page.

Google Alerts: practicum http: //alerts. google. com Use your Google account to access alerts !

Google Alerts: notifications via RSS