Updates tagged: google

How to: search within a specific council website

Sometimes an investigation involves searching for something on a particular council website. Quite often the search facility on a council website is not very effective - so here's how to search a council website using Google: On Google, click on Advanced Search (to the right of the search button) Type in your search query, e.g. 'Environmental Information Regulations' in the first box In the last box - 'Search within a site or domain' type the...
read more

Finding background information for your investigation (advanced searching tips)

The first challenge you'll receive on any new investigation is to 'Add background information'. This helps establish what's already known about the issue, who might know useful information, and where the gaps are.Here are some tips in finding useful information:1. Search Google NewsGoogle News is "a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from more than 4,500 English-language news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader's personalised interests." It is...
read more

Creating and publishing a spreadsheet online

For some investigations it will be useful to create a public spreadsheet of information. There are 3 main reasons why: * It's a better way of displaying data than using a sentence of text * It means people can easily see where the gaps are - and fill them in * It also allows people to do interesting things with the data, like visualise it, or mix it up ('mashup') with information from elsewhere, e.g....
read more

Search

Related Tags

What are "Tags"?

Tags are keywords that we use to help eachother find things on Help Me Investigate. The more 'tags' that you add to the site, the easier it will be for others to find and collaborate on your investigation. Help Me Investigate.

Bigger font size = more popular tag

For more information on tags check out the FAQ page