(short screencast) I suspect I’m starting to sound like a Google employee, but I’m just testing out lots of Google stuff for a bunch of workshops coming up. This short screencast shows the new real time search feature in action. For hot topics with timely content, you may see a scrolling news feed of updates [...]
Google has just added some more handy search filters to the “show options” side panel that they introduced last May. Today, we’re announcing nine new Search Options tools: past hour, specific date range, more shopping sites, fewer shopping sites, visited pages, not yet visited, books, blogs and news. These features have been rolling out gradually [...]
A new tool for finding data and doing calculations was released in March. I just heard about it today – several times in fact – I’m a few weeks behind on the “buzz”. Wolfram Alpha is NOT a search engine – “It’s a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own [...]
Nicely organized and handy cheat sheet of search shortcuts for Google & Yahoo. Also available as a 3 page doc file and a separate html page for easy printing.
Via Phil Bradley’s weblog: Google has come out with a really clever gizmo that they’re calling ‘Google in Quotes‘. Basically it pits two political figures from some major countries together allowing searchers to type in a search term in order to compare what they say about the subject. The experiment comes in various country flavours… [...]
Come to Internet Librarian & Internet@Schools West in October 2010 and learn more about WordPress for Libraries!
I'll be presenting a WordPress Workshop with Kyle Jones. And a session on WordPress for Schools with Buffy Hamilton and Kyle Jones
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