“The video doesn’t look like much, but it sparked a revolution; by July 2006, more than 65,000 videos were uploaded to the site every day. In October that same year Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion – a reminder of how fast things move in the age of the internet…”
That’s nuts!!!
(Excerpt and article Via Mashable)
Although Google is the most used website in the world, a lot of people don’t truly know the best way to find exactly what they are looking for on the site. Below are a List of practices you can use to refine your Google search, taken straight from Google; Just a little something I learn at the Internet Expo at The Learning Annex…
| OPERATOR EXAMPLE | FINDS PAGES CONTAINING… | |||
| vacation hawaii | the words vacation and Hawaii . | |||
| Maui OR Hawaii | either the word Maui or the word Hawaii | |||
| “To each his own“ | the exact phrase to each his own | |||
| virus –computer | the word virus but NOT the word computer | |||
| +sock | Only the word sock, and not the plural or any tenses or synonyms | |||
| ~auto loan | loan info for both the word auto and its synonyms: truck, car, etc. | |||
| define:computer | definitions of the word computer from around the Web. | |||
| red * blue | the words red and blue separated by one or more words. | |||
| I’m Feeling Lucky | Takes you directly to first web page returned for your query. | |||
| CALCULATOR OPERATORS | MEANING | TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX | ||
| + | addition | 45 + 39 | ||
| – | subtraction | 45 – 39 | ||
| * | multiplication | 45 * 39 | ||
| / | division | 45 / 39 | ||
| % of | percentage of | 45% of 39 | ||
| ^ | raise to a power | 2^5 (2 to the 5th power) |
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| ADVANCED OPERATORS | MEANING | WHAT TO TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX (& DESCRIPTION OF RESULTS) | ||
| site: | Search only one website | admission site:www.stanford.edu (Search Stanford Univ. site for admissions info.) |
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| [#]…[#] | Search within a range of numbers |
DVD player $100..150 (Search for DVD players between $100 and $150) |
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| link: | linked pages | link:www.stanford.edu (Find pages that link to the Stanford University website.) |
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| info: | Info about a page | info:www.stanford.edu (Find information about the Stanford University website.) |
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| related: | Related pages | related:www.stanford.edu (Find websites related to the Stanford University website.) |
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