1. All About Google’s Search Features
Google U
All About Google’s Search Features
Google U
Rae Montgomery, University of Minnesota Extension Service,
November 2004 – updated April 2005.
1 hour hands-on workshop. Participants will learn about Google’s Search Features and how to use the Google search engine efficiently.

2. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

3. Top Links Top Links Click on each top link as you explain it.
Search the web
The "I'm Feeling LuckyTM" button automatically takes you to the first web page returned for your query.
Images: The most comprehensive image search on the web.
Groups: (Usenet discussion archive)
News: Search and browse 4,500 news sources updated continuously.
Froogle: Search only for products that are for sale.
Local: Find local businesses and services on the web.
5 min hands on. Try it. Enter a search term and try it on a web, images, groups, news, and froogle searches.

5. 5 minutes hands-on.

6. Google Maps www.google.com/maps Map or Satellite views
Overlay driving directions
April 4, 2005 Google added high-resolution satellite images to its Maps and Local search services. You can drag the image around, zoom in or out and also overlay driving directions on the map. Click on Satellite view in the upper right.
or go to google labs. Once on a map, type “pizza”

7. Tips for Searching Google search results: widget parts 286,000
“widget parts” green
“widget parts” green -china 21
5 minutes hands-on after slide to try their own searches.
Finding information on the internet is easy, but finding what you’re looking for can sometimes be a challenge. All search engines offer a clickable Help area that offers tips on searching. Some tips that are especially helpful:
Choose keywords carefully. WIDGET PARTS are the words we have chosen for this example. Google will search for websites that contain the words WIDGET and PARTS, but the words may not be together on the website.
Put quotes around a phrase. In this example Google will find only sites that have “WIDGET PARTS” as a phrase.
Add keywords to narrow the search. In this example we added GREEN to limit the search to sites that listed GREEN WIDGET PARTS.
Exclude words. The minus sign (meaning NOT) in front of a word can be used to exclude sites with that word. For example, NOT CHINA
By narrowing the search, we have fewer results to look at. But that can be better than looking at too many results!

8. Advanced Search Operators
link: link: or “
related: related:
define: define:ecommerce
stocks: stocks:msft
site: widgets site:
allintitle: allintitle:ecommerce payments
Demo these as you go through them. Than 5 minutes hands-on.
Google supports several advanced operators, which are query words that have special meaning to Google. Typically these operators modify the search in some way, or even tell Google to do a totally different type of search.
link:
The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage. For instance, [link: will list webpages that have links pointing to the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the "link:" and the web page url. THIS ONLY WORKS if Google ranks the page rank as 3 or higher! Another way to see links is to put quotes around the URL and search for it.
The query [related:] will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page. For instance, [related: will list web pages that are similar to the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the "related:" and the web page url.
define:
The query [define:] will provide a definition of the words you enter after it, gathered from various online sources. The definition will be for the entire phrase entered (i.e., it will include all the words in the exact order you typed them).
stocks:
If you begin a query with the [stocks:] operator, Google will treat the rest of the query terms as stock ticker symbols, and will link to a page showing stock information for those symbols. For instance, [stocks: intc yhoo] will show information about Intel and Yahoo. (Note you must type the ticker symbols, not the company name.)
site:
If you include [site:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to those websites in the given domain. For instance, [help site: will find pages about help within [help site:com] will find pages about help within .com urls. Note there can be no space between the "site:" and the domain.
allintitle:
If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For instance, [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the title.

9. Use the Google Search Box:
Calculator 5+2*2
Phone book
e.g. Bill Gates, WA
type a phone number
Street maps
enter address, city, state & zip
Air travel info
e.g. MSP airport -check airport conditions
e.g. NWA 1678 – check a flight
Demo a couple. 5 minutes hands-on.

10. Search by Number UPS tracking numbers FedEx tracking numbers
USPS tracking numbers
Vehicle ID (VIN) numbers
UPC codes
Telephone area codes
Patent numbers: "patent “
FAA airplane registration numbers "n199ua“
FCC equipment ID: “fcc B4Z PIR"

11. Setting Preferences

12. Preferences Interface Language Search Language SafeSearch Filtering
Number of Results
Results Window
Demo Preferences. Discuss SafeSearch Filtering and Number of Results.

13. Language Tools

14. 5 minutes hands-on. Go to Language Tools off main menu
5 minutes hands-on. Go to Language Tools off main menu. Try translating some text. Or change the interface to “Elmer Fudd” language.

15. And There’s More…

18. 5 minutes hands-on.
More than 500 carefully screened Researchers are ready to answer your question for as little as $ usually within 24 hours. Or up to $200.
You can browse previously asked questions for free!

19. 5 minutes hands-on.

20. 5 minutes hands-on.?

21. 5 minutes hands-on.
NEW - Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

23. 5 minutes hands-on.

26. Still Need More? See ‘About Google’

27. That’s All For Now. Check Google For New Features.
Which Google search features…
are new to you?
are interesting to you?
will you use again?