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

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

For advanced search options

Introduction to search engines

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

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/AAAA100miles 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 iGoogle page.

Use your Google account to access

alerts !

http://alerts.google.com

Google Alerts: practicum

Google Alerts: notifications via RSS