Make Google behave: techniques for better results - Karen Blakeman
Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Wednesday, 30 October, 2013 - 09:30 - 16:30
Course Outline:
Having problems with Google? Fed up with it ignoring your search terms
and giving you something completely different? Or confused by irrelevant
tweets from complete strangers appearing in your results?
Personalisation, localisation, social networks and semantic search are
all being used by Google in an attempt to improve relevance but it can
all go horribly wrong. Austria suddenly becomes Australia and Google
decides that coots are really lions! Nevertheless, just one really good
result in the top five is often enough to persuade us to return to
Google again and again. There are many tricks we can use to make Google
return better results and this workshop will look in detail at the
options that are currently available to us.
Topics will include:
How Google works - what Google tells us and what we have to guess
Recent developments and their impact on search results
How Google customises your results and can you stop it?
How to use existing and new features to focus your search and
control Google
How and when to use Google's specialist tools and databases
What Google is good at and when you should consider alternatives
You will have ample opportunity to experiment and try out the techniques
for yourself and Karen will be on hand to help and advise you. Exercises
are provided to help you test out the search features but you are free
to explore and try out searches of your own.
Who should attend:
This workshop is suitable for all levels of experience. The techniques
and approaches covered can be applied to all subject areas.
Course Presenter: Karen Blakeman
Karen Blakeman has worked in the information profession since 1978 and
became a freelance consultant in 1989. She provides training and
consultancy on social and collaborative web tools, and searching for and
managing information resources. After graduating from Birmingham
University with a degree in Biological Sciences she worked at the
Colindale Central Public Health Laboratory. She then spent ten years in
the pharmaceutical industry before moving to the international
management consultancy group Strategic Planning Associates. Karen edits
and publishes a monthly, electronic newsletter called Tales from the
Terminal Room and her blog can be found
athttp://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/. She is an Honorary Fellow of CILIP
(Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and a
member of the Association of Independent Information Professionals
(AIIP).
Costs (including lunch and refreshments):
UKeiG members £190 + VAT at the current rate; others £230 + VAT at the
current rate
To register your interest in this meeting, reserve a place, or request
further details, please email [log in to unmask] Further details are
also available via the UKeiG website at www.ukeig.org.uk (
http://tinyurl.com/aq4uohc )
UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of
Library and Information
Professionals. 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE. Registered Charity
No. 313014.
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