Information/data overload is the industrial disease of the Information Age.
Thornton May, VP of Research & Education at Cambridge Technology Partners coined the phrase:
Information Obesity & Knowledge Malnutrition
Reva Basch, Author of Researching Online for
Dummies, states that there are four myths of Internet Research: (more
on this)
- Everything is on-line
- It is all free
- You just "plug it into your computer and pull it out"
- It's all there for the taking
Using the Internet today is like trying to use a library where all the books have been dumped on the floor and the lights turned out
To be able to find what is out there we need better:
Source: A.J. Vendeland, in Review of The Software Publishers Association Europe Conference, Conference Analysis, June 28, 1996
So, when doing Internet Research, first try and determine,
where might the data be??
I teach a one day Internet
Research class in San Diego, CA where I teach you:
Where to Search: Strategies for Choosing
conducting a hands-on a search tools shootout! Depending on what
type and quantity of data you want different tools are "best"
-- what should you use for a general search, for a wild card search,
for a natural
language query, for a medical search, for a people search. etc. We compare
and contrast the relative strengths and weaknesses of:
Keyword Search Tools
(Search Engines) vs.
Directory Search Tools
(Subject Directories) vs.
Meta Search Tools
(Web and PC Based )
Then we look at
Specialty Search Sites
and
Extreme Search Tools
Web Rings
Guru Pages
Mega-Sites
Then we delve deeply into How to Search
Refining Your Search Techniques: Crafting a
Nested, Parenthetical Literal Boolean Query (with case sensitivity!)
Call 858.534.3400 or (877) UCSD-4-IT(Toll Free) for more
information or to enroll!
