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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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