Advanced Search Techniques: How the Super Searchers Mine For Gold on the Web
| Session: Getting the Best from
Free & Fee Internet Services |
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Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services Inc.; USA |
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| Abstract: |
Mary Ellen Bates will cover the "super searcher" techniques that she uses and
that she learned from writing two Super Searcher books. She will provide the tools you need to search efficiently and
effectively, insight into how search engines are constructed and what their strengths and limitations are, and practical
tips and techniques for using the web as a research tool. She will discuss what information is hidden in the “Invisible
Web” and how to find information that is not included in search engines.
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| About the author: |
Mary Ellen Bates is an independent information professional and owner of Bates
Information Services, a Washington, DC research firm providing business research for business professionals and
consulting services to the information industry.
She was the 1996-1997 President of the Association of Independent Information Professionals and is active in the Special
Libraries Association. A well-known expert on the information industry, she has been quoted in publications such as The
Australian, Technology and Business, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Business Week and Forbes.
She is a frequent writer on the information industry and has written six books, including BUILDING AND RUNNING A
SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH BUSINESS: A GUIDE FOR THE INDEPENDENT INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL; SUPER SEARCHERS COVER THE WORLD; and
SUPER SEARCHERS DO BUSINESS. She also has written innumerable articles on the Internet and the information industry. She
is a columnist for EContent and Online and editor of The Information Advisor.
She is a frequent speaker for the information industry, and has spoken extensively in the US as well as in Mexico,
Germany, the UK, Australia, Denmark, Sweden and South Africa.
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Other papers in this session:
- The World According to Google (Ondřej Pečený, Institute of
Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University Prague; Czech Republic)
- Separating a Wheat from the Chaff: Evaluating Sources on the
internet (Petr Boldiš, Institut of Librarianship and Information Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles
University in Prague; Czech Republic)
- 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break ()
- Electronic Documents in Libraries : OPACs vs. Gateways (Klára
Koltay, Debrecen University Library; Hungary)
- The Problems of the Present Internet and Some Proposed Solutions
(Soňa Makulová, Comenius University, Faculty of Arts; Slovakia)
- Semantic web (Vilém Sklenák, Prague University of Economics;
Czech Republic)
- What You Didn't See Is What You Get: Dynamic Classification (Pavel
Kocourek, INCAD; Czech Republic)
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