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Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web
How many times have you run a Google search that resulted in thousands of results? With over 8 billion pages online and more posted every day, the Web more than likely contains the information you’re looking for — if only you could find it. In Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web, Internet-search-engine expert Tara Calishain
makes researching more efficient and rewarding for anyone for whom the Web is an indispensable tool — academics, journalists, scientists, and professionals, as well as bloggers, genealogists, and hobbyists. She does so by teaching the latest techniques for building automated information-gathering systems. As an alternative to the typical one-time search for information, Tara demonstrates how readers can use RSS feeds, page monitoring tools, and other software to set up information streams of many different data types — from text to multimedia to conversations — for capture and review.
CONTENTS:
What is information trapping?
RSS basics
Page monitors
E-mail alerts
Building queries
Who's linking to your site
Trapping topic-based information
Multimedia trapping
Trapping tags & conversations
Filtering the inflow
Case studies
Organizing what you find
Publishing your information
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