Google.fr has dominated the search results in France, perhaps rightly so it has redirected English queries to French pages. However this is not good news for English teachers

1. How to escape the
(and along the way other geeky sites & tricks
to better help your students search the web)
By Chris Yukna
TESOL France School of Mines

2. I used to love Google
Who wouldn’t 90% of the web was in English.

3. Google.com was the ESL teacher’s best friend and it did
not even translate.

5. Serp: Search Engine Results Page

6. They even changed the way we talk… or at least search.
Then it began to change, little by little.

7. Then Google began to create the mini-Moi s

10. Therefore here is our Némésis:

11. You students used to be able to
• Type google.com in the url
• Click on the link on the bottom right of google .fr
• Or simply search with English words
Now they are insidiously redirected to a Google.com
lookalike.

14. Also in the face of competiton from
Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine
Google decided to become a Knowledge Engine.

16. Students are effortly directed to
wikipedia.fr for example.
This gives a French worldview on all sorts of topics. Sometimes, it is harmless but
quite often it taints the results.

17. What can you do?

18. Some alternatives in the quest to find
the original google.com.
• Signing in to google means you can, perhaps,
control better the search results
• Going to the search parameters and selecting
only English results
• Typing ncr No Constant Redirect in the url.

19. At last you have the power & perspective of google.com. And there is normally a
memory of the reconfiguration so you and your students should not have to do it again.

21. Search tips

22. Even More?
How to put Google in Your Classroom

23. Some pertinent sites
• Google Logo Generator
• Wordelizer
• If google was a guy
• If google was a guy 2.
• Google Scholar
• Internet archives
• Let’s have some pun.
About the author:
Chris Yukna was born
in the antediluvian 50s,
had a paper route at 9,
sold Christmas cards door
to door at 11, and washed
dishes at 14. All these
enriching work experiences convinced him early
on that he was totally unsuited to working and
therefore should become a space cadet, mad
scientist, or teacher.
He has three websites that he tries to update
periodically:
Science General (fun with science)
Business Emporium (Esl business lessons &
quizzes)
Totally Unorthodox (where he puts everything
else)

24. This presentation was originally made for

25. And has been updated and expanded for TESOL
32nd Annual Colloquium