Thread:WEB 2.0 Training at Moi University Manin Campus (1)

Harrison Bii Ag. Head ICT Moi University Mr Kotut Rep The VC Prof Japhet Otite Dean School Of Information Sciences VC Prof Richard Mibei

http://dir.yahoo.com/ - yahoo directory link

types of information searches 1. The givens – what you have 2. The wanted – what you need

Click on serch tools to get advanced searches eg reading levels etc

Advanced search www.google.com/advanced_serach OR go to the gear on the left and choose advanced search can narrow by region or domain eg .ke etc you can use google advanced search operators to directly do advanced searches eg enclosing into comma – using a dash to preclude a word from search ~ (tilde) is for synonyms or related terms ~maize prices in kenya site.ac* using a wild card to mean any site ~maize “prices in Kenya” site:.ac* A space automatically means AND maize disease and diseases are different ie use the asterix for the thinks you cant recall *there is in this world something that surpurses all other things* asleep “maize lethal necrosis” limits the search to this three words “maize lethal necrosis” – Kenya limits the search to this three words excluding Kenya Google can be used to convert figures eg km to miles, or 33% of 65000 etc define: necrosis ext:pdf id: www.mu.ac.ke infor www.mu.ac.ke location:Kenya weather:city

in goggle alerts use advanced search format to avoid a lot of useless alerts eg “maize lethal necrosis” Kenya topic- Creat alerts, and how to read and edit them using google reader google reader is a web features that enables you to read alerts and RSS Feeds link to be trained as a power searcher

www.google.com/insidesearch/landing/powersearching.html