Class 2008
This contains lots of information from last year's class. I want to make it as easy as possible for you to do well in this class while also learning from last year's students.
Basic information
Content
Assignments
- Term project
- Industry updates
- Class notes
- Blogging guidelines
- Search tool data
- Overlap data
- Data Analysis
Community
Topics discussed
Web search, Techniques (1/2), Directories, RSS (Intro/ Lab), News, Deep Web, Alerts, Page monitors, Tag-based, Images, Custom SEs, Geography, People, Video/Music, Other SEs, Metasearch
Final projects
Important announcements
- First status report
- How to organize your project wiki
- Third status report
- Feedback at end of semester
Listing
- Investment Banking Industry by
bryblum - Alternative Energy in the US by
Eric Brackmann - Start Up Process by
dylanb - HIV/AIDS Non Profit Initiatives by
Caitd - Automobile Industry by
Hcflow - SEMCOG Transit Panel by
thauck - Software-as-a-Service by
BrianHeM10 - Mortgage Industry by
Hermatz - Walt Disney Pictures by
Susan Kennedy - U.S. Travel Services: Airlines by
laytosp - Internet Infrastructure by
tmuir - Apple the Company by
dpnick - OIL: U.S. and the World by
roopak - Defense & Aerospace Industry by
mlrossit - Music Recording Industry by
schmidke - Social Networking by
jenstan
Schedule (show all)
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 09/03/2008 | 01-Introduction |
| Description of what the course is about, what we'll do in the class, why students should take it, why all their friends should take it. | |
| 09/08/2008 | 02-Web search |
| Discuss basics of Web search and why students should use multiple search tools (rather than just Google). | |
| 09/10/2008 | 03 Wiki Instruction Day |
| We'll go over techniques and tricks related to using this wiki, which will also be the host of your term project wiki. | |
| 09/15/2008 | 04 Search Techniques And Strategies |
| We go over several standard search techniques and strategies. | |
| 09/17/2008 | 05 More Search Techniques And Strategies |
| We go through the exercises related to search techniques; we also discuss evaluating sources from the Web. | |
| 09/22/2008 | 06 Web Directories |
| While focusing on Web directories, we learn about several different ways of using the work of others to help find information on the Web. | |
| 09/24/2008 | 07 RSS Intro |
| We are going to introduce the topic of RSS feeds. | |
| 09/29/2008 | 08 RSS Lab |
| We are going to work through more exercises allowing you to explore RSS feeds and related tools. | |
| 10/01/2008 | 09 News Search |
| We learn about the major news search tools, as well as how to integrate them with your knowledge of RSS. | |
| 10/08/2008 | 11 The Deep Web |
| We learn what the deep Web is and why we need to care about it. | |
| 10/12/2008 | 12 Project Day |
| We are going to discuss the term project. | |
| 10/15/2008 | 13 Email Alerts |
| We are going to discuss the different types of email alerts, how to find them, and how to generate them yourself. | |
| 10/22/2008 | 14 Page Monitors |
| We discuss page monitors and then go into some detail about advanced RSS feed-manipulation Web sites. | |
| 10/27/2008 | 15 Tag Based Sites |
| We discuss social news and bookmarking sites. | |
| 10/29/2008 | 16 Image Search |
| We discuss and explore the variety of image resources and search tools available. | |
| 11/03/2008 | 17 Custom Search Engines |
| We discuss custom search engines, and how you can build your own. | |
| 11/05/2008 | 18 Exploring Connections |
| We discuss several tools that you can use to explore connections among Web sites and, more specifically, from other Web sites to yours. | |
| 11/10/2008 | 19 Test |
| We take the test today. | |
| 11/12/2008 | 20 Geography Based |
| We discuss all types of geography-based search tools and resources. | |
| 11/17/2008 | 21 People Search |
| We discuss several different ways to find out information about people through their Web presence. | |
| 11/19/2008 | 22 Videos And Music Search |
| We discuss several different ways to find out information about people through their Web presence. | |
| 11/24/2008 | 23 Google |
| We have a visitor from Google. | |
| 11/26/2008 | 24 Other Search Sites |
| We explore many of the most recently created search engines. | |
| 12/01/2008 | 25 Metasearch Engines |
| We discuss and evaluate metasearch engines. | |
| 12/03/2008 | 26 Yahoo |
| We have a visitor from Yahoo. | |
| 12/08/2008 | 27 Wrap Up |
| We wrap up this semester's activities. | |
Industry updates (show all)
These are all of the industry updates. You can see more information on the show all page.
- 22google by
samoore (last edited on 1251644874|%a, %m/%d/%y) - 21google by samoore (last edited on 1251644873|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- Video Chat and Flu Trends by samoore (last edited on 1251644873|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- 18yahoo by samoore (last edited on 1251644873|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- 17google by samoore (last edited on 1251644872|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- 16search by samoore (last edited on 1251644872|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- 15search by samoore (last edited on 1251644871|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- 15google by samoore (last edited on 1251644870|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- 14google by samoore (last edited on 1251644870|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- 13search by samoore (last edited on 1251644870|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- 09google by samoore (last edited on 1251644869|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- 08google by samoore (last edited on 1251644868|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- 06google by samoore (last edited on 1251644868|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- 05google by samoore (last edited on 1251644868|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- 05yahoo by samoore (last edited on 1251644868|%a, %m/%d/%y)
- 04google by samoore (last edited on 1251644867|%a, %m/%d/%y)
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