When searching for electronic data contained inside a computer for use in a lawsuit, the meaning of "search" will be more extensive and detailed range. Searching data on a computer is not the same as searching documents in the file cabinet explicitly.
With the search of the file cabinet, you are dealing with printed papers, you can touch, it feels smelly. But searching for data in a computer will search documents that you can not feel, smell, or touch.
Interestingly, if you display a document on a computer screen as a text, a number, or a combination of both, the text and numbers displayed on the screen are actually a combination of 1 and 0 called binary.
In summary, the computer does not store data in English, French, German or Spanish. The computer saves the data as 1 and 3 different combinations (binary). However, there are automated ways to convert what you type on the keyboard into what you can understand on the screen. How is this? Patience is my friend. This will be a topic of another article.
But let's tell you how to search for data on a computer that is not printed on paper. The computer's hard disk contains 1's and 0's.
Currently, the amount of documents that can be stored on a computer is large, so especially when the computer in question is used by a third party, the task of searching documents becomes complicated.
The computer user uses a different name to save the file. Some of these names suggest what is included in the file, but many of the file names do not suggest the contents of the file. For example, you can save a file named "orange" on your computer. If you search the word "fruit" on your computer, documents stored as "oranges" on your computer will not be published.
The above position represents what happens with a general search on a computer. But there are ways you can do better work and specialized computer search application. For example, when searching for "fruit", the file saved as "Orange" is displayed.
Therefore, further search of documents on computers requires more knowledge and skill. This generally requires a starting point called "keyword" search. You will be able to touch various kinds of searches. But what is "keyword" first?
keyword
In very frequent computer search, emphasis is initially not related to the name of the document, but rather search is a string of operations words or data that leads to all relevant documents including search terms. As a result, the use of "keywords" is essential for computer search.
The ability to construct appropriate keywords and search terms is very important. The searching computer responds only to the questions you asked. If you enter "Orange" search, the computer will not search for cars. But the computer is smart enough to know that oranges and grapes belong to the same class. You must find a way to tell the computer to return the grapes as words even where you searched for oranges.
To further promote points, computers generally do not return the word "dead". If you search for the text "died" in the string. However, there is a way to let the computer return a search for words belonging to the same meaning family.
Here are some of these methods that will help you to enhance the search capabilities on your computer. Please note that some of these techniques are only possible through the use of special software installed on the computer, such as the dtsearch application. The search application improves the capabilities of the computer and allows you to search computers in more detailed and human way beyond the usual search of keywords.
Index search
Considering the amount of data the computer can currently store as the storage capacity (hard drive) of the computer decreases, for example small laptops can now store more than 1 billion bytes of data.
The more data, the longer it will take for the computer to process the search request and look for a particular file or keyword. However, the computer can actively compile a table of all the instances of the word gathered from the document on the computer. Thereafter, when the search is connected, the computer refers to the table of words. This word table is known as an index. The main purpose is to save time.
Terms such as "live search" generally refer to searches that do not refer to the index table, but the search is directly connected to computer storage. This takes more time and consumes more computer resources.
Noise word
To increase the efficiency of searching, most specialized search applications, Ediscovery applications and forensic applications offer the opportunity to exclude what is commonly referred to as "noise words" during searching. This approach saves time and computer resources. Noise words are ordinary everyday words commonly found in most documents used in everyday sentences. Other terms can also be excluded from the search. For example, file names such as file names that are automatically created and used by computer systems such as antivirus files and user profile files are well known.
Concept Search
This involves using search queries to identify similar threads, groups of documents with similar subject matter. This approach is aimed at locating the group of documents, not just one document.
Forecast search
As the name implies, this is a search methodology that attempts to predict the class of the document containing the desired word or text to be searched. This involves the computer analyzing the group of documents, drawing some distinction or similarity of the content in the grouped document, and applying that sampling to all other search documents.
Boolean search
Boolean search allows you to use and combine words when searching for digital documents. The special word knows Boolean operators are used for these purposes. AND, OR, NOT AND NEAR. You can limit or extend the scope of your search by using Boolean operators.
Most Internet browsers (eg Google) use Boolean operators during search operations.
Fuzzy search
Fuzzy search will search words even if they are misspelled. For example, searching for the word "orangos" will return the search results "oranges". This type of search is greatly useful in circumstances where there is a problem with the spelling of related words, especially in situations where it seems likely to contain scanned text or abbreviated text.
Phonic Search
Phonic searches return words that sound almost identical and begin with the same letters. For example, the word Spanish is also returned in search of spades.
Synonym search
In synonym search, words with the same or nearly the same meaning are returned. For example, searching for the word "purchase" returns the word "purchase".
Stemming search
Stemming search returns extended pattern of search term. For example, in cat search, words such as cat, catlike, etc. are returned.
In conclusion, you can search documents on your computer in more sensible and detailed ways. It is conditional to have the necessary additional computer applications and knowledge of the above methods.
Karl O'Bay
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