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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Information Technology in Agro Marketing

Information Technology in Agro- Marketing

By Dr. Lalit Kumar Setia |  @drlalitsetia  |  drlalitsetia@gmail.com  | 

The agenda of Government of India, to double the farmers’ income requires to strengthen the marketing chain for sale of agricultural produce in the markets or direct to the consumers. It is required to bring efficiency in the marketing chain for the benefit of the farmers. Let’s take an example of Uttar Pradesh in India where 125 sugar factories are situated to help 3 million sugarcane farmers of 44 districts, to sale their sugarcane at reasonable price.

Lack of Capabilities in Indian Farmers:

The Indian farmers are not much educated, even most of the farmers are under-matric. Due to low level of literacy, they easily become victim of the middlemen who exploit them by taking their produce at lower prices. The farmers are not much aware of the best prices of their produce and the middlemen with negotiation, provide less prices of their produce. Most of the times, it happens due to weak marketing chain. After having agricultural produce in hands, the farmers became worried due to non-access to secure area to handle their produce, they tried to sell it at the earliest at best price.

Challenge for Government:

In order to safeguard the interests of farmers from middlemen’s exploitation, the challenge for Government is strengthening supply chain enough to eliminate the middlemen by dissemination of information properly. The Agro Marketing requires use of Information Technology to improve the whole scenario.

Agro Marketing for Wheat Produce:

In North India, Wheat and Sugarcane are two major agricultural produce and cover most of the farmers. The Government is focusing to improve the Agro Marketing by improving the harvesting, selling, storage, and process of payment to the farmers. In case of wheat, the farmers require to harvest and sell it once the agricultural produce becomes ready to sale. As there are multiple buyers due to demand of the wheat at field level, it becomes easy for the farmers either to sell it directly to the consumers or sell it in the market through the middlemen. Most of the farmers became capable to store the wheat produce for a few time. In case, the farmers decide to sell it into the market through the middlemen, they easily get money in return.

Agro Marketing for Sugarcane Produce:

In case of sugarcane, the farmers have no other option then the sugar mill to sell their produce because the sugarcane are perishable and cannot be stored for much time; they sell it to the sugar mill even if the payment is not received on the spot. However, generally Government ensures that they receive their payment within 10-15 days of selling their produce.

Practical Problems for Farmers:

When the Government was not using information technology in Uttar Pradesh for supporting the Indian Farmers, the farmers were facing the following problems. These problems are still existing in the states of India wherever the information technology is not being used:

(a) What to produce:

A farmer required to select the crop which he may produce in his farm. Definitely, he has multiple options to select a single crop. The Government provides facility to test the soil of the farm to decide which crop will provide maximum benefit to the farmer. The farmer also considers the marketing aspects of each crop before deciding what to produce in the farm.

(b) When to sell their produce to get best price:

After the farming of the crops, the farmer requires to know the time when his agricultural produce may provide him the best price. He is not much aware about it. Most of the time, even after good quantity of the agricultural produce, the farmers realized less sales amount and become worried from it. Therefore, the Government should provide him the desired information at proper time so that he can use that information to realize best price of his agricultural produce in the market.

(c) How much price is expected for my agricultural produce:

More the price, more the efforts a farmer does for getting the agricultural produce ready to sell. The Government should ensure or forecast the price of each crop of the agricultural produce so that the farmers may decide their expected price for the year.

(d) Manual System of Government Agencies for procuring agricultural produce:

The workings in Government office relating to agriculture, is still manual and due to lack of information technology, the governance is affected badly. There is manipulation in writing the accurate weight of their produce and they become rewarded with less amount of sale.

What can be done to sort out practical problems of Farmers:

It is well known that information technology is the ultimate solution to all types of problems. Therefore, it is required to explore the potential of information technology in the area of Agro Marketing, to support the farmers. The farmers are not much literate but the information technology can strengthen the system enough to make it possible to provide best prices to the farmers with transparency in the processes. It is required to seek the ideas from various types of stakeholders to help the farmers in getting rid of exploitation of the middlemen. It is also required to have discussions with the experts in Agro Marketing to evolve new mechanism supporting marketing chain of the agriculture. It is also required to motivate those farmers who are coming ahead to use information technology so that all farmers come ahead to use it.

Using Information Technology in Agro Marketing:

First of all, a databank is required to be maintained containing information of farmers, nature of their farming produce, and transactions of the farmers in market. Thereafter, the data can be used to estimate the desired messages to be sent to each farmer. The websites, apps can be utilised to empower the farmers to get accurate information at real time.

With the maximum use in marketing chain, it becomes possible for the Government to disseminate the information at proper time to empower the farmers in making right decisions. In case of sugarcane, if it happens then fresh sugarcane will be available to the sugar mills and more sugar production will be possible. In case, the sugar mills supply more quantity of sugar to the consumers, its revenue will grow and profits will also increase. In such cases, the sugar mills will not face any problem to make the payment of farmers.

Using Website, SMS, and IVRS Calls:

In Uttar Pradesh, the Government sent millions of SMS to the farmers for making them aware about the cultivation of the crops from which there is more potential to earn money. The farmers are also provided access to the websites, and also contacted with IVRS calls for improving their knowledge with regard to agriculture.

Less Complaints to Government:

After using the information technology, the exploitation of the farmers will be reduced to a large level. There will be more transparency in farming operations and better control over the agricultural produce.  

*Copyright © 2019 Dr. Lalit Kumar. All rights reserved.

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Self-education through Youtube Channels

Self-education through Youtube Channels

By Dr. Lalit Kumar Setia |  @drlalitsetia  |  drlalitsetia@gmail.com

In the era of Information Technology, the universities are also failed to provide desired education to the students. Making the students either entrepreneurs or skilled employees has become very tough job. But the students who have commitment and passion to do something; are learning through youtube channels and being successful even without studying in universities. 

Google and Facebook:

The information is disseminated around the world through Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media web portals and apps. The Google comprises all the tools to search the information relevant to the seekers and due to this particular advantage, it has become the largest preferred web portal for seeking information on the internet. Similarly, the Facebook has also been preferred to seek the relevant information. People search facebook like Google and attain the knowledge from the portal. The users of Google and Facebook also upload their information for disseminating it around the world.

YouTube for Self Education:

The youtube itself provides a separate platform for the people or viewers interested in self-education i.e. https://www.YouTube.com/education; the platform had been launched in 2009 and has been broadcasting the educational content from over 100 universities and colleges. Secondly, there is another platform for the teachers to learn teaching i.e. https://www.YouTube.com/user/TeachingChannel.

TED Education Portal:

The TED Education portal provides a platform to spread great ideas with talented educators and animators. In TEDx Talks it is said, “Till H. Groß is a remarkable young man with a passion for psychology. He took his education in his own hands...with mind blowing success”. The talks provided upon the TEDx Talks on youtube can help broaden the mind with new exposures regarding experiences and actual lessons learnt by others. Secondly the Jim Rohn also provided an opportunity to learn using his youtube channel. His views upon self education through youtube state:

“For things to change, You have to change!

For things to get better, You have to get better!

Formal education will make you a living!

Self education will make you a fortune!

Become more attractive to the marketplace and people will become attracted to you!

Want to learn these skills and more that the great Jim Rohn passed down?

Then register for your free account Today!

There is no catch or obligation...

Use what you're going to learn to elevate the business you're promoting...

Or use it just to improve yourself!”.

George Lucas Foundation:

The George Lucas Foundation, Edutopia provided evidence-based teaching strategies for teachers and trainers around the world. It helps in sharpening the skills of consultants. 

Khan Academy:

The non-profit educational organization Khan Academy has been started in 2006 and constantly delivering performance and making available latest and updated content online in all disciplines. With easy access to the sources of knowledge, students are being benefited, however, there is one problem which is still unaddressed i.e. how to retain talent and how to utilize the talented man-power to the maximum extent. 

For more stuff relating to online sources of learning, please access the following webpage: https://www.teacherswithapps.com/197-educational-youtube-channels-know/

*Copyright © 2018 Dr. Lalit Kumar. 

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