Google Search Update
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Yet another version of this! This one is for the April 20, 2010 workshop for the Capital Region School Library System.
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Google Search Update
- 1. Google Search Update Capital Region –School Library System April 20, 2010 Polly-Alida Farrington
- 3. Google 411 – not new, but still handy!
- 5. Smart Results in Search Bar
- 6. Personalized Search with Stars
- 7. Rich Snippets reviews, people profiles, business listings, recipes and events.
- 13. Page Previews
- 14. Timely Topic
- 15. Latest Results – real time stream
- 16. Twitter Timeline
- 17. Last 24 Hours & Sorted by Date
- 19. Social Search
- 20. Results Nearby
- 21. Related Searches
- 22. Wonder Wheel
- 23. Timeline
- 24. Images
- 25. Search Options - Images
- 26. Similar Images
- 28. Image Swirl (Google Labs) image-swirl.googlelabs.com
- 29. Odds & Ends!
- 30. Google Search Stories http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories
- 31. This video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW_ubJJ8SnE Ideas: 5 Awesome Ideas For Using Google Search Story Creator In The Classroom http://ow.ly/1Axo2
- 33. Music Search
- 34. Google Sets (Google Labs) http://labs.google.com/sets/
- 35. Google Trends (Google Labs) http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
- 36. Visualize Trends
- 37. Twitter Search Results - Firefox Greasemonkey Addon http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43451
- 38. Google Cloudlet – FF addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9943
- 39. Lock Safe Search
- 40. Aardvark
- 41. Mobile Search!
- 44. KidRex
- 45. Data
- 46. Public Data google.com/publicdata/home
- 47. Public Data – embed code
- 49. Google Scholar
- 50. Google Scholar
- 57. Legal Opinions
- 58. Google News
- 60. Add a Section
- 63. Fast Flip View
- 64. Image View
- 65. Quotes
- 66. Search within Quotes Set
- 67. Easy limits by date
- 68. News Archives - Timeline
- 69. Really Old News!
Editor's Notes
- These are NOT suggestions from things you’ve searched before. Just suggestions from everyone.
- Universal search results in Search Suggest http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/two-new-features-enhance-search-beyond.html
- http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/stars-make-search-more-personal.html Synchronizes with your google bookmarks.
- Search options sidebar introduced in mid 2009. New options are frequently added. Always check! Lots more limiters on the sidebar than there used to be. Will vary by search
- Lots more limiters on the sidebar than there used to be. Will vary by search
- Might be more helpful for this type of search. Note that options for further narrowing change as the type of result changes
- Expands the content and shows preview of pages
- Notice the NEWS at top Followed by news feed from twitter And then more results Click on LAST 24 HOURS
- Handy for researching content in other languages – Picks the most appropriate language for your query Translates your query into that language Finds results and translates them back into your language for you.
- Results from people you’re connected to and the people they’re connected to And from the blogs and resources you subscribe to.
- Do a search Select options on sidebar Wonder Wheel view Helps focus topics.
- Displays results that refer to dates along a timeline. Pulls from web pages, google books, articles and more.
- Options sidebar for Images search Note: still have to go to ADVANCED SEARCH to limit to images that can be reused.
- Incorporated into regular search now – had been in google labs Search for an image, look for SIMILAR IMAGES link below thumbnail
- In Google Labs Gathers images based on visual and semantic similarity. Connects images based on their visual and semantic similarity.
- Class project
- Use article title or URL
- May not see this yet. Partnering with music sites: like iLike, Pandora, Rhapsody, etc. Search on lyrics, etc.
- Been around in Google Labs for years, but handy!
- Day by day – top search terms
- Lock safe search from SETTINGS – need password to unlock. Could you lock all the machines in a lab? And make sure browser doesn’t remember password? Mostly a visual thing. See the colored balls and you know safe search is on. Easy to defeat and not foolproof. I searched for ‘pornography’ – didn’t get any porn directly, but did get results that would lead me to it.
- Recently acquired by google – searchable by texting and web.
- While we’re on the topic of being organized…. Lets look at google’s calendars.
- http://www.google.com/coop/manage/cse/ Select the sites you want to search Add them to the custom search and create your own search box You can put it on another web page Or add it to your iGoogle
- http://www.kidrex.org/
- http://www.google.com/publicdata/home Complete list of World Bank indicators currently available: CO2 emissions per capita , Electricity consumption per capita , Energy use per capita , Exports as percentage of GDP , Fertility rate , GDP deflator change , GDP growth rate , GNI per capita in PPP dollars , Gross Domestic Product , Gross National Income in PPP dollars , Imports as percentage of GDP , Internet users as percentage of population , Life expectancy , Military expenditure as percentage of GDP , Mortality rate, under 5 , Population , and Population growth rate .
- Articles and citations from scholarly publishers, preprints, publication databases and more Links to full text articles where possible Connect to your local academic library through the Scholar Preferences screen.
- Search options
- Results – free articles linked on right. Cited by…. Related articles. Web search Check library holdings BL direct – british library - purchase on the spot – electronic download All versions.
- Full text
- Results –indicates a free online version of the article Cited by…. Related articles. Web search Import into EndNote Check library holdings BL direct – british library - purchase on the spot – electronic download All versions.
- Add your local academic libraries Select a bibliography manager to export citations to
- Add a google scholar search box to your own web pages
- full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts
- Basic News search focused on last 30 days. 25,000 constantly updating news sources Archived News Search Recently announced that in the past year the # of digitized articles has quadrupled. And they’re including more sources and further back in time. (source: http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/extra-extra-updates-from-our-growing.html)
- Standard news page with major topic categories on left.
- For language students and students from other countries, get news in other languages For all students, these pages give view of news from other points of view
- Story page is nicely organized. Timeline, images, videos, quotes, blogs, local news etc.
- Do a custom search News IMAGE VERSION – pulls out the images from the stories. . Same stories, just a different view.
- Search for a name, get one quote at top of results page, with link to more quotes From this page, you can search within the quotes.
- Search by dates takes you into the archives search. Which can also be accessed from the advanced search screen. Back to 1700’s. Quadrupled the # of digitized stories over the last year.
- Halifax Nova scotia Gazette from 1753