Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web Review

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(More customer reviews)In Information Trapping, Tara Calishain does a good job covering the basics of automated searching and information trapping, and even covers more advanced topics like re-publishing the information you find to a blog or Wiki. The writing is clear and concise, and the structure is easy to follow.
Chapters include:
What is Information Trapping
RSS Basics
Page Monitors
Email Alerts
Building Queries
Who's Linking to Your Site?
Trapping Topic-Based Information
Multimedia Trapping
Trapping tags and Conversations
Filtering the Inflow
Case Studies
Organizing What You Find
Publishing Your Information
Throughout the book, the author does a good job of mentioning the best sites you can use today to find and mine information, and explores some advanced search engine query syntax, and methods of emailing, filtering, and organizing the information your search will return.
If you are looking to extract data from the web, Information Trapping is a good primer on using automated methods to find information on the web.

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How many times have you run a Google search that resulted in thousands of results? With over 8 billion pages online and more posted every day, the Web more than likely contains the information you're looking for — if only you could find it. In Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web, Internet-search-engine expert Tara Calishain makes researching more efficient and rewarding for anyone for whom the Web is an indispensable tool — academics, journalists, scientists, and professionals, as well as bloggers, genealogists, and hobbyists. She does so by teaching the latest techniques for building automated information-gathering systems. As an alternative to the typical one-time search for information, Tara demonstrates how readers can use RSS feeds, page monitoring tools, and other software to set up information streams of many different data types — from text to multimedia to conversations — for capture and review.

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