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Beth Dichter's insight:
Do you use Google? Do you understand the ins and outs of Google? If not, you may find this lengthy infographic of interest. It provides a visual representation of many of the tricks to searching, helping you find what you are looking for more quickly. Consider sharing this with students and colleagues. 
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"Anyone can type a word or phrase into the Google window and hope for the best. Some even use quotation marks, or use autocomplete to their advantage. But how about putting a dash before a word to exclude it from your search? Or using the tilde–like a boss–to search for synonyms for a term as well?"
Beth Dichter's insight:
Check out this infographic that provides seven tips to make you a better searcher...a couple of these may be new to you!
Mary Cunningham's curator insight,
October 13, 2013 12:07 PM
I'm not sure why googling well is a "boss" attribute but the hints are good. I am trying them now!
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"Upon the requests of several readers of Educational Technology and Mobile Learning, I recently started a series of guides on how to effectively use some Google services in education. These guides are very simple and well illustrated with explanatory screenshots."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Check out this guide that provides great visuals to help you learn some of the many tools Google provides to do searches. Did you know that you can search by type of content, including images, news, flights, applications, patents and more? Learn to search by reading level, use the dictionary tool, refine your query by time, region and language and much more!
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A look at the importance of teaching students how to search. Do your students (or faculty) know how to find information online? Do they have use appropriate search words, understand how results are generated, use multiple resources, to assess the information (quality and accuracy), recognize bias? This post focuses on some of the information from the recent Pew Report that looked at "How Teens Do Research in the Digital World." The author also provides links to articles he has written on how to use Google to teach search to students in K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.
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Google is offering a course on Power Searching. This course was offered over the summer and provides an opportunity to help you become a better search. "This is an online, community-based course showcasing search techniques and how you can use them to solve real, everyday problems. Dan Russell, a senior research scientist at Google, will cover topics that will help you: * Find just what you’re looking for, faster * Get right to the most credible sources * Solve even the most challenging questions You can find additional information and register by clicking through to the site.
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![How a Google Search Travels Around the World [INFOGRAPHIC] | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/e0bYMFjDNd717vNPL-f_0jl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
A new infographic about Google Search shows the journey of a search on the site, from how it travels at the speed of light to how it ranks its results. How would you search a book with a million pages? That is pretty much what Google is doing when you search the web. The amount of information and the number of miles a query may travel is amazing. Check out the infographic for specific information.
Your Vital Ventures's comment,
October 24, 2018 3:33 AM
Thanks for sharing awesome adventures for travels. http://yourvitalventures.com
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It’s not often you get to hear advice directly from someone at Google who offers you his favorite search tools, methods and perspectives to help you find the impossible. The riddle: What’s the phone number of the office where this picture was snapped? If you want to learn how you might find the answer check out this article for many tricks that help you solve the riddle!
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"I’ve been completely obsessed with Google’s new mini-site devoted to finding better ways to incorporate proper web searches into the classroom. Dubbed ‘Search Education,’Google’s new site has an array of lesson plans, videos (check a sample out below), concept maps, and other tools designed to help any educator properly integrate Google... As part of Search Education, Google has shared a bunch of lesson plans that are organized by degree of difficulty. So, if you consider yourself and / or your students Google experts, you should try out the more advanced plans. If you don’t know what ‘boolean’ means, then you probably should start with the more basic stuff. The following are just some of the many lesson plans brought to you by Google. Check out the site for more info!"
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From
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Are you concerned that Google knows everything you search for online? Protected Search prevents Google from being able to see what you search and what sites you visit. The new service, built from the popular GoogleSharing service, helps put you back in control of your online privacy. The Wall Street Journal published an article "Keeping Google from Watching Your Searches" that discusses Protected Search and it states that currently this works with Firefox. The article is at http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/03/01/keeping-google-from-watching-your-searches/
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Google Search in 2 separate languages. Features include a Query Translation Option, Rich Snippets and 37 Google Search Languages. In addition, 2lingual.com hosts two voice-search tools. Google Multilingual Voice Search which is designed to make it easy to Google Voice Search in 66 different spoken languages and twitter Multilingual Voice Search which is designed to make it easy to Twitter Voice Search in 66 different spoken languages. Both voice-search tools require a Speech-to-Text capable browser.
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"Google just launched a really great addition for the Search Results Page (SERP).
Beth Dichter's insight:
Google now provides information on sites when you do a search (with a caveat...this is not yet happening with all sites but does seem to show up with with sites that are larger). Although some may know these sites for many students this information may help them determine the validity of the site. Hopefully this feature will continue to pushed out to assist students in evaluating websites.
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"As the search engine that’s become its own verb, Google’s success is difficult to frame. One of the most telling examples of their gravity in search is how few legitimate competitors they have. (Some would say they have none.)"
Beth Dichter's insight:
When you ask students what search engine they use the answer tends to be Google...and their tendency is to look at the first four or five results (this is from my experience with students). This post provides a look at "innovative ways to use Google search in the classroom...[with] the intended outcome [to be] the students sustained ability to self-direct and manage the search process as the digital universe continues to evolve." What are some of the ideas? Read below and then click through to the post to learn of others. * Locate 3 sources of information that support an idea, and rank them in terms of their credibility. * Have students record immediate but brief think-alouds for why they choose to click on certain search results while skipping others. * Defend or critique the process of Googleing entire questions (versus simply Googleing key words and phrases). Consider picking a number of these ideas and using them with students in your class this year...and share with other teachers in your school. It is not only students whom need to upgrade their search skills.
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Richard Byrne shares ten techniques to help students become better searchers with Google. Some of his suggestions may be new to you and a number provide links to additional information. You can download a copy of the pdf from Scribd (free of charge).
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Why do so many students choose Wikipedia when asked to find information on the Internet? I believe the answer is that Wikipedia is like the McDonalds of the Internet, you can always find it and you know what you’re going to get. Check out the 10 free tools, including Google Search Education, Google Custom Search, the Find Tool, a variety of search engines (although I would also include Carrot2 at http://search.carrot2.org/stable/search) and more!
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This summer Google provided a two week course called Power Seraching with Google. Each class included videos and assignments and the course is now available to anyone who would like to improve their search technique. The six classes are: Class 1 - Introduction Class 2 - Interpreting Results Class 3 - Advanced Techniques Class 4 - Find Facts Faster Class 5 - Checking Your Facts Class 6 - Putting It All Together As a bonus you may also watch a Power Watching with Search Experts Video and a Hang Out with Search Experts Video. Take your time to explore the courses and enjoy learning how to be a power searcher!
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Google has many ways to search, and one way that many folks are not aware of is the small camera icon that allows you to drag in or upload an image (or paste in a URL) and have the search be for the image. This post provides additional details as well as screen shots to help you out.
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The wired world has made it possible for people from all across the globe to connect and learn from each other. With Google's translated foreign pages you can quickly learn how news is being reported in other countries. This article shows you how to use "More search tools" in both general web and Google News results. By clicking on "More search tools" additional filters are available, including "Tranlated foreign pages." Additional tools are also presented.
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Google's one unified privacy policy went into effect on March 1. The new privacy policy makes it easier for Google to bring user data across its services, but the actual privacy preferences remained unchanged. If you are concerned about how to "keep your browsing history as private as possible" think article shares five tips.
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As you probably know, Google's privacy policies were recently overhauled. The data that Google collects about your use of their services (including the Chrome web browser) is now shared across all of Google's services.
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This is power we can use.
Very helpful