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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Some Little-Known or Must-Know Google Skills

Google Search

     Every Google application has inside application search possibilities.

     Click "Images" to search for any image.  Don't forget the "Advanced Search".  Also video search.

     "Blog Search" has many surprising possibilities--try it.  It's under "More" on homepage.

     "Advance Search"
          All words, exact phrase, at least of of the words options.  This limits the search results amazingly.

     Local Searches is interesting.  Just define the town wherein you want the info related to.  Your town?


     Directory Browsing by Topic
          directory.google.com uses a table of contents and subtopics.  Can be very useful!

     "People Search"  ("Googling People")
          It can actually be embarrassing how much information you can find on people.  Have mercy.  
          Be sure to put their name inside "Double Quotes" in search box and add other information you know like where they are from.


"Google Chrome" is their own browser and not surprising all these applications run better and faster using it.  It's free, too.

Google Maps is famous.  It's tricky though.  You want to learn the:
          - "Drag Map" hand,
          - "Move Square to Reposition" lower right-hand corner tool
          - "Click to collapse" down pointing arrow in a box

Google Earth Free
          http://earth.google.com to Install
          Views from space, can tilt the Grand Canyon for example
          There's a PDF User Guide at .../google_earth_user_guide.pdf (?)

Google News
     Using this with Search is great.  Just put your topic in quotes and search in the News Page Search Box.
     Also there are news categories on the left, key words on right side, etc.

Picasa is Googles photo application.  It's quite sophisticated.

I guess they dropped their website-making application.  Too bad.  But Blogger and Blogspot are about the same.

If you have a website that you want to appear high on the search engines, the book Building Your Business with Google for Dummies by Brad Hill gives details about how to make that happen.  But it's a tricky, time-consuming web designer techie/geekie skill set.

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