Google Search Update

Questar III SLS September 23, 2010 Polly-Alida Farrington

Info for parents & teachers

“How search works” - Handy overview for classes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJGZ!

What’s New?

Google Instant

New!

Google Instant Music Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgFh6IAQoDA

BUT - Google Instant Conflicts with Wonder Wheel

You know the Wonder Wheel?

Related Searches

Something Differentuses Google Squared

Not so new Google 411 – Voice Search

Still new to many - Mobile Voice Search

No more klutzy typing on tiny keypads!

Virtual Keyboard – Wow!(language tools link)

Hot!

Smart Results in Search Bar

Rich Snippets

reviews, people profiles, business listings, recipes and events.

Personalized Search with Stars

Stars on Maps

Stars = bookmarks & show up in iGoogle gadget

Content types & other limiters

Real Time Results & Other Content Types

Results from Discussions

Same results

Video Episodes

New!

Search Limits – vary by content type

Sites with images

Page Previews

Last 24 Hours & Sorted by Date

Translated Search

Hot!

Social Search

Hot!

Results Nearby

Results Nearby – Custom Location

Timeline(can help find primary sources)

Images

Advanced Search Options - Images

Still only place to limit by licensing. (creative reuse)

All new image display

New!

Image info on sidebar

Similar Images

Life Magazine Photoshttp://images.google.com/hosted/li

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Image Swirl (Google Labs) Now includes YouTube

New

Odds & Ends!

Experiments happen!

Google Instant was tested on random folks before it was released to all. http://www.ousbey.com/blog/live-updating-google-search-results

translate.google.com

Google Search Stories

http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories

5 Awesome Ideas For Using Google Search Story Creator In The Classroom http://ow.ly/1Axo2

My Search Story

Inaccessible content? Maybe not!

Headline & cached link worked from Google, but not from search on wsj.

Google Sets (Google Labs)

http://labs.google.com/sets/

Google Trends (Google Labs)

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

Visualize Trends

Aardvark – owned by Google

Mobile Search!

Data

Public Data google.com/publicdata/home

Public Data – embed code

Google Data Explorer

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Legal Opinions

Google News

Fast Flip View

Google News Timeline (Google Labs)

Really Old News!

Questions?

Ideas?

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