Click U Live! The Year in Web Searching: News, Updates, and Changes at Google, Yahoo!, Live, and More

Date: 8 October 2008
Time: 2:00 -3:30 p.m. Eastern U.S. Time
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Every year, the search engines introduce new products, redesign their interfaces, change ranking algorithms, and add or remove search features. Some can significantly change search strategies and they type of results found. Keeping up with all the changes is a daily task. This seminar wades through all the news, new products, and changes and then highlights the most significant changes at each engine that effects search. Discover what has changed at Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask, Gigablast, Exalead, and any new or upcoming search engines.

Presenter

Greg Notess, Professor and Reference Team Leader, Montana State University and Author of SearchEngineShowdown.com

Who Should Attend?

This seminar is designed for librarians and information professionals who are frequent Web searchers. Experience and familiarity with each of the search engines is helpful. The content is targeted at those who are already familiar with the basics of Web search.

Critical Learning Questions

What are the most significant changes at the search engines in the last year?
 What impact do these have on search strategies?
 What new search capabilities are available?
 Are any new search engines worth exploring?

Notes

Instructions for accessing the Webcast will be emailed to you 2 to 3 business days prior to the event. Your registration is for one computer and one site only. You can host as many people as you like for one low site fee! So be sure to invite your colleagues to learn with you! Register before 2 October and save US$ 10.00 [Live Only]! Program registrations beyond that date will be US$ 139.00.

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