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Effective googling
Google was founded in 1998 and has grown tremendously over the past 9 years. It now employs over 10,000 people worldwide and has indexed over 20 billion web pages. Google provides many useful search features beyond basic keyword searches, including searching by file type, negative search terms, and limiting searches to specific websites. It also offers specialty search tools for news, images, books, and more.
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Effective googling
- 1. Effective Googling! HardikThakkar CMED Infosys Technologies
- 3. How Old isGoogle? Answer: 9 years (10 on September 7, 2008) In September of 1998, Google Inc. opened its door in Menlo Park, CA. http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html#1995)
- 4. More About Google“Google” is a play on the word “googol” which is the mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros and “…reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.”
- 6. A Unique CompanyNumber of employees: Worldwide, Google employed 10,000 full-time employees as of now Work Environment: Informal: Lava lamps, door on sawhorses as desks, exercise balls for chairs, and dogs roaming the halls… Google: The interface is clear and simple. Pages load instantly. Placement in search results is never sold to anyone. Advertising on the site must offer relevant content and not be a distraction. No pop-up ads allowed. Google founders Sergey Brin Larry Page Source: http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/tenthings.html
- 7. Why do welove Google? Size and scope : Now indexing over 20 billion web pages (conservative estimate). Relevance of Results : PageRank Diversity of Search: Image, News, Book Search, Scholar, Blog Search, Finance, Froogle, Video . . . and much, much more. Other Tools : Google Maps, Picasa, Blogger, Gmail, Calendar, Docs & Spreadsheets . . .
- 8. But… We maylove Google, but few users know how to use full search capabilities.
- 9. Effective Googling Howdoes Google interpret basic search? Google places “AND” operator between all search terms entered in basic search box. Automatically searches for some plural/singular and grammatical variants. You enter : news reader Google searches : news AND reader OR readers Does not search as exact phrase unless quotes present!
- 12. Need Exact Phrase?Use quotation marks! “infosys billion dollar”
- 13. Expand Search WithSynonym? Use a “tilde” e.g.: “~infosys” finds IT companies similar to Infosys
- 14. Search by filetype(pdf, ppt, xls, doc) e.g.: “.Net Framework” filetype:ppt
- 15. Negative Search Termse.g.: “nano –car” will return the results with word ‘nano’ but not Tata Nano car
- 16. Limit your searchresults to a particular web site e.g.: “sparsh site:infosys.com” will get the pages from infosys.com where the word ‘sparsh’ is referred `
- 17. Search for sitesthat link to a particular website: e.g.: “link:infosys.com”
- 18. You’ve found auseful website & want to find other sites like it: e.g.: “related:www.infosys.com”
- 19. Google is aDictionary Find definition of a word or a phrase? e.g.: define: scruples
- 20. Google is aCalculator as well
- 21. Google is Convertertoo..! Convert currency, units and a lot more
- 22. More Search Operatorsallinanchor: allintext: allintitle: allinurl: cache: group: info: time weather
- 23. Use Specialty SearchFunctions Google News : news.google.com Google Images : images.google.com Google Blog Search : blogsearch.google.com Google Finance : finance.google.com Google Scholar : scholar.google.com Google Book Search : books.google.com
- 24. Google News AlertsTracking an event in the news? Create your own Google News alert – it’s free! Can choose to monitor latest developments on web pages, blogs, Google news, Google discussion group pages, or all of these sources.
- 26. Google Scholar Covers: law, medicine, social sciences, arts, humanities, business, & finance. Included items : peer-reviewed papers, theses, book excerpts, abstracts & full-text articles Sources for items : academic publisher web pages, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, & other scholarly organizations.
- 28. Google Book SearchSearches full text of indexed books. If work is in public domain, full contents usually available. If not, users can view bibliographic info (author, title, publisher) and perhaps some excerpts. Library partners: UC, Princeton, Stanford, Univ. of Michigan, Univ. of Texas, Oxford, UVA, Univ. of Wisconsin, ……
- 32. Something exciting atlast Localized search Movie search Code search
- 33. local.google.co.in Effective localizedsearch solution
- 34. google.co.in/movies Findtheatres running your desired movies in your city..wow
- 35. google.com/codesearch search publicsource code
- 36. Google hack forfinding movies/music (warning: Not to be tried at office but home…!) e.g.: intitle:”index.of”(mp3|mp4|avi|dat|mpeg) mummy
- 37. Interesting stuff GoogleDocs Google Calendar Google Reader Google Gear Google App Engine Google Sites Google Sets Google Trends and so on…
- 39. PageRank PageRank explainedby Google: Google interprets a link on page A going to page B as a vote -- by page A, for page B. Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily.