Power Searching with Google

In class one, we learned about how to effectively search for a topic in Google. The word order, word choice, and symbols used all matter when making a good query, however spelling and capitalization don’t make a difference in the query. We also learned a tool to help us search a page for certain words faster. By pressing the Control and F keys at the same time, a little box appears where you can type in a certain word that you are searching for. This makes research so much easier and faster. Both of these pieces of information will help me in research projects at school. In the next class, we learned about all the different types of media available on Google. Depending on what you’re searching for depends on which piece of media to use. The ones that I use most of the time are the images, videos, and web. However there are so many more options like news, maps, shopping and books. We also learned how to read the SERP. There are three parts to the SERP which are the title, web address, and the snippet. There are also two arrows which give you a preview of the site to make sure that it’s what you are looking for. I use this tool to help speed up my searching by quickly previewing each site so I know if it’s what I need or not. In class 3 we learned about many different operators. There are five of them which include filetype, site, minus (-), quotes, OR, and intext. Most of these are like filters so when you search for a topic it eliminates sites that you don’t want. Quotes and OR aren’t filters. Quotes allow you to search for the exact words that you type into the query. OR lets you search two topics at once by placing the word OR in-between the two queries. I can use these when I am trying to search for specific topics in the computer. For quotes, I can use this to search the author of famous quotes or the lyrics to a song. All the information I learned from classes 1, 2, and 3 have improved my ability to search in Google.