Power Searching with Google

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Class Outline

• Class 1• How Google works

• Class 6• Putting it all together

• Class 2• Interpreting results

• Class 3• Advanced techniques

• Class 4• Finding facts faster

• Class 5• Checking your facts

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How search works.• what happen when you do a web search

• How spider works.

• How they collect information.

• How they pull it all together

The art of key word choices

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•How to choose the right words that go into your query?

• Imagining words that will appear on the page

• Using only the most important words

• Selecting the right synonym

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factors that have an effect on search queries.

• Every word matters

• words order can make a difference

• Capitalization does not matter

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• A few characters do make a difference

World Health Org.

A movie

A musical band

Order can make a difference

Capitalization does not matter

But there are a few exceptions

Exceptions

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Symbols and How to use them.

• +• Search for Google+ pages or

blood typesExamples: +Chrome or AB+

• @• Find social tags

Example: @agoogler

• $• Find prices

Example: nikon $400

• ..• Separate numbers by two

periods without spaces to see results that contain numbers in a range.Example: camera $50..$100

• OR• Use OR to include more than

one way of Expressing one Idea and add more result to your search

• Ex : tesla coil OR Jacobs ladder

• - • it excludes sites with that info

from your results.

• Examples: jaguar speed -car or pandas -

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Spelling matters, but you have help

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AutocompleteWhen you start a search on Google, you can find information faster by looking at search predictions. Search predictions are possible search terms you can use that are related to the terms you’re typing and what other people are searching for.

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Related searchesAt the bottom or first of the page

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OperatorsIt's Extra thing we can add to our query to filtering the data and focus in,on Exactly the kind of result you want.

Site: File type:Get results from certain sites or domains..edu -- educational institutions, but only in the US..in (India), .br (Brazil), .ed (Spain), or even .aq (Antartica).

way of limiting your results to files and documents of a particular kind.

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Query order The filetype: portion of the query can come either before or after the other search terms

File type :

Do not use a period Effective:        [filetype:swf]  

Ineffective:         [filetype:.swf]

Spacing Filetype: operators do not work if there is a space after the colon.

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Time EX: Time in Sydney

Search Features

Weather EX: Weather in Sydney

Ex: Weather “your postal code”

Flight information Ex: dubai airlines

Airlines

Weather

Weather in …

Time in…

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Dictionary.Put define in front of any word to see its definition.

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Calculations.Enter a math equation, or solve complex graphing equations.

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Graphing.Enter a math equation, or solve complex graphing equations.

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Unit conversionsX in Y

Dollar in egp

Cm in inches

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Sports:.Search for the name of your team to see a schedule, game scores and more.

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Find text in web pageCtrl f

Box appears in the top right

The words are highlighted

Filter by color

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From Search tools

Filter by color

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From Search tools

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Image search for tesla

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Image search for tesla with the color Purple filter

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Image search for tesla with the color Red filter

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Image search for tesla with Black and white filter

Photo From unknown source

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Drag the photo into google image.

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Unknown toolTake a picture of the item, clear the background.

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Drag and drop.

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Google Goggles

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Street view.

Click on the yellow guy.

Drag and drop.

Street view with 360 images

Who is

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Using Books to verify a Fact.

Search for the book

Find in the book

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Search by Date range limiting

From Search tools

Custom range

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Using Date to verify data.

Occasional misconceptions

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Custom search engine or join tools on a site do NOT imply Google vetting or endorsement.

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Do one more search.

Ranking—it’s not the same as credibility.

Check the URL to see inside the storyhttp://www.historywebsite.com/comunism/52egyptianrev.html

Don’t bake your answer into your query

Identify sourceBlogger: “63% of all kids look at pictures of funny cats each day”

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