Search Engines for Retrieving Information

Search Engines for Retrieving Information

-Dr. Lalit Kumar

Everyone is comfortable searching for desired information from search engines. It is very easy to do and user-friendly. Anyone can learn with the trial and error method. The knowledge of the system is not required for using Google or other search engines. Anyone can access a large quantum of information with a single click with the help of a search engine.

Data Mining Tools:

The data mining tools for advanced search are used to retrieve the desired information quickly. Highly effective search algorithms are also used on the internet. It depends upon the search abilities of the user, how effectively he/she finds out the information. Suppose I want material on Financial Management in Government, preferably in .pdf file. How I will search?

Using Search Engine for Seeking Specific Format of Files:

Your answer will be, go to Google and search “Financial Management in Government *.pdf” and Google will show the files as under:

Very good. I can retrieve .pdf files available on the Internet using Google within seconds. Now I can download whichever file, I like. 

Using Search Engine to Explore files from Index of Webpages:

But you may be surprised to know that after exploring the above results, I also usually search “Index Financial Management in Government *.pdf” and find the results are under:

Using a search engine for seeking restricted information:

Further, have you tried, what I have tried, to search “restricted +filetype:pdf site:mil Financial Management in Government”. You may be surprised to know the results as under:

Retrieving information from index directories of websites:

One more effort, I can do is to search “"index of /"  financial management in Government” and what I find, again different important responses:

Seeking information with type and specific content:

This is an example to search .pdf files related to “Financial Management in Government”; you can change the type of file, it may be .doc or .xls or .ppt or other formats.

Use of “site: ____” in search:

Suppose you want to explore the government websites with URL of gov; for your search, then you may use “site:gov”; the results of “site:gov Financial Management” are as under:

Searching information with retrieving Titles of Webpages:

Further, try to search, “intitle:Financial Management type:.pdf” and you find the following results:

Seeking Confidential Information from Websites:

Try to search “index of Financial Management +confidential filetype:pdf”, what you find, is as under:

The search content may also, be different. These skills of exploring the internet will provide you 10 times more data than the normal search on a search engine.

Privacy Concerns:

There are people, there are organizations that keep their exposure away from the internet for privacy concerns. The sensitive information is always not uploaded on the internet. Details are available and realized from the search engine only if someone uploads it on any webpage. Without uploading information, it cannot be retrieved by the users through search engines.

In this article, you learn how to seek desirable information in multiple ways to access a huge quantum of related data. I hope, you liked it. Your comments will suggest something to improve. Thanks.

*Copyright © 2021 Dr. Lalit Kumar. All rights reserved.

This article is written by Dr. Lalit Kumar Setia; a renowned author and trainer. He completed his Doctorate in Commerce from Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra and MBA in Information Technology from GJU, Hisar. He also wrote two books, 15 research papers, and organized more than 200 Training Courses during his working period since 2006 in Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Gurugram. The article was firstly published in 2017 and last updated on 19th October 2021. The writer can be contacted on lalitkumarsetia@gmail.com 

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