INFORMATION UPDATE

             "Offering Information Solutions"

    March, 2003                              Number 42
   A Monthly Publication of Shamel Information Services
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     DO IT YOURSELF - A New Twist on Image Searching
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For an interesting Internet search, go to the Google Web
site for an Image search.  At http://www.google.com, click 
on the Image tab.  In the search box you can enter whatever 
you would like to find a picture of.  Above the search box
is a link to the Preferences page, where you can set the 
filter to manage the types of images you retrieve.  I have
mine set to Moderate filtering, which is the default.

Try entering your last name, or last name and first name if
your last name is pretty common.  You might be surprised at
what turns up.

I tried a search on the initials of my professional associa-
tion.  I belong to the Association of Independent Information
Professionals - AIIP.  A Google image search retrieved four
pages of images, mostly the AIIP logo retrieved from various
Web sites.  Of course there are some "false hits" where aiip
is there but in a different context than I was looking for.

The fifth image shown is actually from the AIIP Web site, 
but you have at click on it to see the logo.  

Clicking on any of the images will show the image in its
original context, with a hyperlinked URL leading to the page
as it appears today.

I can see application for this search strategy in competitive
intelligence, since it reveals Web sites which appear to have
some affiliation or connection to AIIP.  The results of a
search such as this will be different from a traditional
Internet search and yield different information to the
researcher.


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       Notes, News, and Announcements
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>>Buying and Selling eContent, April 13-15, 2003, Scottsdale,
  AZ.  Buying & Selling eContent 2003 will focus on strategic 
  issues faced by top-level executives responsible for buying
  & selling content in the electronic marketplace.
                http://www.buy-sell-econtent.com/

>>Association of Independent Information Professionals, May
  1-4, 2003, Providence, RI.  http://www.aiip.org


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Cynthia L. Shamel, editor
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Poway, California
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Author, "Building a Brand: Got Librarian?" 
   Searcher July/August, 2002.
   http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/default.htm
Editor, "Online Market and Industry Research"
   South-Western Publishing Company, a division of
   Thomson Learning, forthcoming.

President-Elect of the Association of Independent 
Information Professionals http://www.aiip.org.

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