In the first couple of posts in the series, The Many Faces Of Google For Economic Intelligence, we examined how relevant applications such as Google Alerts, Google Finance and Google Blog Search are to economic intelligence for economic development projects.
This post will elaborate on the benefits of using Google Groups Search for information gathering online.
Google Groups are platforms in which individuals may have discussions on various topics. As of July 2009, Google Groups has searchable archives of more than 700 million Usenet postings from a period of more than 20 years.
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Case Study:
You are interested in thoughts of individuals and related information regarding the past levels of foreign direct investment in India.
Solution:
By simple inputting the keywords such as “foreign direct investment” and “India”, you can access discussion posts such as past newspaper articles and analysis reports.
