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Tutorial:Information Search
Tools
Internet Functions• Email• Usenet• File Transfer Protocol• Telnet• Listservs• World Wide Web• Chat• Videoconferencing
Information Retrieval• Search Engines
– How they Work• Spiders• Indexing• Retrieval Engine• HTML Interface
– Examples• www.altavista.com• www.lycos.com• www.aj.com (Natural Language Interface)
• Meta Search Engines– www.dogpile.com– www.metacrawler.com
Information Retrieval (ctd.)
• Newsgroups– www.google.com (deja.com)
• Online Databases– Bison: http://bison2.umanitoba.ca– ABI/Proquest: (start at:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/ )– Technical support sites (eg. http://Support.microsoft.com )
• Other– Discussion Forums (http://finance.lycos.com )– Regular ole Web Surfing
• www.mapblast.com
Off-Campus Logon
For info on how to log in from home:http://www.umanitoba.ca/campus/computing_and_network/remote
For U/M site-licensed software:http://www.umanitoba.ca/software
ACN at 474-8600 for computer support.
Internet Explorer News Groups• Directions assume IE 5.5 and Outlook Express
– Tools, Mail & News, Read News– Select a newsgroup & click on subscribe button – Click on Okay– Double click on the group you added to download
messages (you may want to download only 100 messages)
– You can pick the message you want to read from the headers at the top
– You can reply to the group by clicking “Reply Group”
– To save a message, just highlight & save it to a file
Your account
• If you have questions concerning your account, please contact: – Shirley Hares, Accounts Administrator, 474-9788,– Room 629 Engineering Bldg, Fort Garry campus,– e-mail: [email protected]
• For assistance, please contact:– ACN Support Desk, 474-8600, – Room 629 Engineering Bldg, Fort Garry campus,– e-mail: [email protected]
Claim Your Accounts• Accessing Computer Accounts
– LAN: ID is student #, password is date of birth (yymmdd)• If in doubt, ask Lab Supervisor• If not enrolled in Asper School of Business, see Lab Assistant
– UNIX: CLAIMID on Umanitoba Web site• http://www.umanitoba.ca/campus/acn/docs/claimid.html
• If you have problems, ask Lab Supervisor or someone at Academic Computing & Networking (629 Engineering)
• More details can be found at: http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/accounts
• You may use a non-University account for your e-mail and Web page if you wish
Next Class
• Tutorial on Web Page Creation
• Bring Assignment #1 with you
