To Infinity & Beyond! Taking Google Beyond the Basics

TakingGoogleBeyond

the Basics

OLCChapter Conferences

2012

Ad Infinitum Et Ultra!To Infinity and Beyond!

Who Am I?

http://bitly.com/xMhx8n

What is Google?

From the Oxford English Dictionary

www.google.com/intl/en/policies/

Google Fundamentals

• “Phrases and” exact “word” -ignore• Site: nasa.gov

www.google.com/insidesearch/features.html


Googlecalls this area the Google

Toolbelt.

The Toolbar is the one along

the top(off-

screen)

For more info check

outbit.ly/Ah4Pkf

• “Phrases and” exact “word” -ignore• Site: nasa.gov• Wildcard operator *• Use in song lyrics? Quotes?


• “Phrases and” exact “word” -ignore• Site: nasa.gov• Wildcard operator *• Use in song lyrics? Quotes?• Search for numbers in a range: $300..$500• filetype:pdf


manned space exploration site:nasa.gov 1970..1972 filetype:pdf

• “Phrases and” exact “word” -ignore• Site: nasa.gov• Wildcard operator *• Use in song lyrics? Quotes?• Search for numbers in a range: $300..$500• filetype:pdf• Convert and Calculate: 100*3.14-cos(83)=



Plus many more specialized searches includingearthquakes, stock quotes, recipes, etc…

Its Time To Go Beyond the Basic Search…

www.google.com/ig

groups.google.com/

Groups

www.google.com/reader/

Reader

images.google.com

Images

I need a book I was reading a while ago.It was by Heinlein and had a blue cover.

But wait,there’s more…

That’s it!Stranger in a Strange Land.

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2

3

4

www.google.com/patents

Patents

“Traffic Signal”

Patent number: 1475024Inventor: G.A. Morgan

NOTE: Incorrectly titled“TEAFFIC SIGNAL”in Google Patents

Introducing…Google Play

play.google.com

books.google.com

Books

News

news.google.com

translate.google.com

Translate

google.com/language_tools

scholar.google.com

Scholar

You Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWGLAAYdbbc

www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision

www.google.com/webfonts/

Web Fonts

www.google.com/publicdata/

Public Data Explorer

www.google.com/publicdata/

code.google.com/apis/chart/

Code

And we haven’t even mentioned…

Google +

http://www.onlinecollege.org/50-great-google+-tips-for-school-librarians

There are alternatives to Google…

duckduckgo.com(ddg.gg)

See donttrack.us/ for info on their privacy policy

www.ixquick.com

See https://ixquick.com/eng/protect-privacy-qa.html

bing.com

explore.live.com/skydrive

www.zoho.com

www.openoffice.org

Boldy Go Forthand Search New Resources,

Collaborate,and Create Content!

Thank you!Questions?

All links in this presentation: http://bitly.com/xMhx8n

Slides available at www.slideshare.net/donboozer

Email: [email protected]

Image Acknowledgements• Title Background Slide: http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/6261058381/ NASA's Chandra Finds

Massive Black Holes Common in Early Universe: A composite image combines the deepest X-ray image ever taken with optical and infrared data from Hubble.

• Title Inset Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/4858567274/in/set-72157624523502725/ Apollo 11 Launched Via the Saturn V Rocket-High Angle View

• KnowItNow24x7 Logo: http://provider.knowitnow.org > Marketing Materials• KIN24x7 Logo Background: 7http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/3746737855/ Scott Gives

Salute• Google Logo: http://www.google.com/press/images.html• Rocket Comparison of Revenue: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Saturn-

V_Shuttle_Ares-I_Ares-V_comparison_%2806-2006%29.jpg (Chart created by D. Boozer)• Entrance to Building 40, Googleplex Campus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Googleplexlobby-

adjusted.jpg 2007-01-04 17:57 Renesis 1306×861× (475874 bytes) Adjusted version of [[:Image:Googleplexlobby.jpg]] (rotated to correct tilt).

• Google Basics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/4479013489/ Dr. Robert Goddard at Clark University (with additions, obviously – DB)

• Sales representatives in "spacettes" costume pose before the rocket entranceway of Tupperware Home Parties Inc.: Orlando, Florida: http://www.flickr.com/photos/floridamemory/3296209508/

• Bubble Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/5393241197/ Supernova Bubble Resembles Holiday Ornament

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