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- Louise Nolan
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Searching the Internet - Tools & Techniques
Course Aims
Search engines and directories are continuously mapping the information available on the Internet. Speciality search sites are being constructed that enable targeted searching. ‘Search Robots’, ‘Intelligent Agents’ and ‘Collaborative Filtering’ systems are being developed to facilitate efficient information searching. These search tools can be used to derive any information from the Internet, but for effective searching they require application of the right techniques. Course readers will learn the optimum use of search techniques and tools involving search engines, directories, discussion forums, robots, intelligent agents and collaborative filtering systems. The practical sessions will involve searching for actual information such as the location and details of businesses, products, services, people and the latest news. |
Assumed Knowledge
Course readers should have basic knowledge in the use of the Internet. |
Course Audience
This course is ideal for knowledge researchers, managers and other professionals wishing to use the Internet to access information they require for their work, business and personal use. It will provide course readers with details of the main sources of information to be found on the Internet and teaches how to find, manage and track the required information precisely and quickly without being subjected to the ‘information overload’ phenomenon. |
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Table of Contents
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Directories & Search Engines
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Searching or using Search Engines
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Discussion Forums
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Searching Discussion Forums
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Speciality Searching
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Speciality Searching of International News
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Speciality Searching of Financial News and Data
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Speciality Searching on Health Matters
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Speciality Searching of Travel Information
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Speciality Searching of Yellow & White Pages
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Speciality Searching of Pictures
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Speciality Searching of Public Databases
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Speciality Searching of Domain Names
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Search Robots
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Personal, News & Shopping Search Robots
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Intelligent Agents
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Mobile & Local Intelligent Agents
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Automating Intelligent Agents
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Collaborative Filtering
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Active & Passive Collaborative Filtering
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Page Clustering & Content Analysis
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