Web 2.

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Accessing Information on the Web

Compiled by G. Rambaldi, CTA

BASIC COMMANDS: * NEAR OR : exact phrase e.g. "to be or not to be" : forbidden terms e.g. cow -mad : words starting with e.g. people* : adjacent words e.g. (stock NEAR exchange) : logical expression e.g. (plan OR programme)

ADVANCED SEARCH COMMANDS [Site:countrycode] restricts results to a country (two letter country codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_two-letter_country_codes [Filetype:] retrieves only specified formats [related:] lists web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page. [after:] modified after a given date e.g. after:DD/MM/AAAA [before:] modified before a given date e.g. before:DD/MM/AAAA

ADVANCED SEARCH COMMANDS [allintitle:] restricts the results to those with all of the query words in the title. [intitle:] restricts the results to documents containing that word in the title. [define:] provides a definition of words gathered from various online sources.

SEARCH FOR LISTS VOICES FROM CIVIL SOCIETY Blogs: http://blogsearch.google.com/ Groups: http://groups.google.com/ Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/ Translated search: http://www.google.com/language_tools

LANGUAGE TOOLS Search for content in different languages and get it served in your preferred language: http://translate.google.com

SEARCH SERVICES Translated search: http://www.google.com/language_tools Books: http://books.google.com Journals: http://www.scirus.org Scholarly literature: http://scolar.google.com Projects: http://aida.developmentgateway.org News: http://news.google.com Search with related links http://www.exalead.com/search

NEWS SERVED AT YOUR DESK Your personalised Google desktop iGoogle: www.google.com/ig Google Alerts: www.google.com/alerts Development news aggregator: www.newsfordev.org www.developmentgateway.org http://www.docip.org/ Indigenous Peoples' Center for Documentation, Research and Information (RSS)