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1 InK4DEV Week – Information and Knowledge for Development, 4th Edition 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.

2 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

3 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.

4 Searching with Google

5 Expand the “More” link to search more content types

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

7 Searching with Google For advanced search options

8 Introduction to search engines

9 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 … childrenkids cropcultivation cheapinexpensive If you search for … Google won’t find … NYCNew York City CTATechnical Centre for … GNPGross National Product

10 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

11 Google Advanced Search [Site:countrycode] restricts results to a country (two letter country codes)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 100miles in km

12 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.

13 Advanced Search with Google Usage Rights e.g. CC

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

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

16 Language Search and Tools Search for content in different languages and get it served in your preferred language: http://translate.google.comhttp://translate.google.com Translated search: http://www.google.com/language_tools http://www.google.com/language_tools

17 Translated search: practicum

18 Search Services… Books: http://books.google.comhttp://books.google.com Journals: http://www.scirus.orghttp://www.scirus.org Scholarly literature: http://scholar.google.comhttp://scholar.google.com Projects: http://aida.developmentgateway.orghttp://aida.developmentgateway.org News: http://news.google.comhttp://news.google.com Search with related links http://www.exalead.com/search http://www.exalead.com/search Google Baraza: http://www.google.com/baraza/enhttp://www.google.com/baraza/en

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

20 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.

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

22 Google Alerts: practicum

23 Google Alerts: notifications via RSS


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