Search skills that will make you like Captain America searching for Ironman

1. Power Search with
Google
Cheryl Lykowski
image from J. Lee

2. Google Search
image from J. Lee

3. How well do you
know
?

4. Google Search
Support
image from J. Lee

6. Safe Search
image from J. Lee

11. chicken soup is
Avoid using the, the same as
I, are, be, from, chicken and
when, and soup
where.
image from J. Lee

12. Using OR
Use more broadens your
descriptive search.
words.
image from J. Lee

13. Using the tilde (~) And now for some
in front of a
keyword tells
Google to search
POWer
for that keyword Searching!
plus its synonyms.
image from J. Lee

14. Images
image from J. Lee

23. Search Operator:
image from J. Lee

24. Filetypes
image from J. Lee

27. Site
image from J. Lee

32. Operators within Image
Searches
image from J. Lee

35. It is important to notice that you should not have a space between the minus sign and the term. In
effect, if you search for [salsa - dancing] with that space there, you are just saying [salsa dancing]. You
are now starting to emphasize that term which is probably not what you meant. Keep the minus sign
touching the term you are trying exclude and you will get the effect you want.
Effective: [salsa -dancing]
Ineffective: [salsa - dancing]

36. Can’t Get Enough
Google?
image from J. Lee

38. More

39. Even More

45. Calculator
image from J. Lee

46. In the
Google
search box, enter
the equation
as it is
written.

49. Google Glossary
image from J. Lee

50. Begin your
search with
the word
‘define’ and
then the
term(s) you
are wanting
defined.

54. Recipes
image from J. Lee

55. What’s for dinner?

56. Still Can’t Get
Enough?
image from J. Lee

57. http://www.google.com/insidesear

63. Drag and drop an unknown
image from desktop (or from where it is
saved), to Google Image Search bar to
search information about that photo.

65. http://agoogleaday.com/

66. The longer it takes to
answer the question,
the fewer points you
earn.

67. Google Advanced Search

68. Google Advanced Search
(continued)

69. http://www.googleguide.com/

70. Questions? Comments?
image from J. Lee

71. Mucho Gracias!
Thank You!
Merci! image from J. Lee

72. contact me:
web2.0explorer@gmail.com
http://www.techconferences.wikispaces.com
image from J. Lee