Global Research without Leaving Your Desk: Travelling the World with Your Mouse as Companion

摘要

The internet has become the source that we all turn to for quick reference to information. However, the indiscriminate nature of search engines makes them very inefficient tools and a poorly constructed search resulting in millions of hits does not, as a rule, return quick answers. This book aims to remove some of this frustration for the business information researcher by providing pointers to reliable and targeted internet sources. Although it does claim to assume a certain level of internet skills, chapter one begins with some very useful basics - read a URL before opening up the web page as this can tell you a great deal about the content and save precious time; check the date last updated of a page before reading the content and deciding to use it; use mind mapping to develop alternative key words; and remember the internet archive for pages which appear to have disappeared. This chapter then continues with an overview of search engines and their characteristics likening this to a cruise round the Greek Islands with only the more well-known being discussed. These include Google, Clusty, and Turbo 10 and metasearch engines such as Dogpile and Kartoo.