Topic

Information Search and

Analysis Skills

By:Abhinav Kashyap

Contents1. What is information

2. Importance of information

3. Problems of information

4. Sources of information

5. Information search on internet

6. Guidelines for information searching

7. Information and society

8. References

1. A collection of facts or data.

2. The act of informing or the condition of being informed.

3. Computer science: Processed , stored or transmitted data.

What is information

DATA InformationProcessing

Importance of information

To bring awareness among people

Update our knowledge

Choose among the best of options

Saves the time

Maximization

Problems of information

Reason why we seem to be poorly informed:

1.Information explosion(or information overload):

Refers to an excess amount of information being provided, making processing and absorbing tasks very difficult for the individual because sometimes we cannot see the validity behind the information.2.Information Scatter :

The uncontrolled and unmanageable spread of information.

Newspaper

Magazines

Journals

Technical Books

Sources of information

Internet

It is common source of information for general people

Shows chronologically occurring news on day to day basis

It is in between newspaper and journalAdvertising is at higher

Usually weekly or monthly

Mainly technical information for professionals

High cost and restricted circulation

Usually monthly or quaterly.

Mainly technical information specific to a subject

Best source of information or rather of information overload

Newspaper,magazines and journals all of them are avialable in their

electronic form on internet

Information search on internet

• Maintain their own database on net.

• Database maintained by programs called Spiders.

Search Engines

• Unlike search engine these doesn’t have their own database instead after entering search keyword they visit several search engines and return result from their database

Meta-Search Engines

• These are directories maintained by individuals as against database maintained by search engines

Subject Directories or Virtual

Directories

Steps for searching informationYou can use some simple techniques to narrow the search results and minimize the time spent on locating information

Analyzing the topic

Selecting the search Tool

Refining your search

Analyzing vital information

Information and society

Information makes us civilized

Help in coordination

Maintains our society

Unites us

Information play a vital role in society:

References

http://www.answers.com

http://www.businessdictionary.com

http://www.searchtools.com

http://www.infopeople.org/search/tools.html

Thank you