Teaching Brock To Search

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Teaching Brock To Search

• Dr. Howie DiBlasi
• Twitter hdiblasi
• Digital Journey
• Emerging Technologies Evangelist
• howie_at_frontier.net
• 970-749-0760
• www.drhowie.com
• www.toolsfortheclassroom.com

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WiredSafety.org the world's largest Internet
safety and help group

• http//www.wiredsafety.org/
• Flash Video on Evaluation Of Web Sites
• http//www.wiredsafety.org/wiredlearning/Evaluatio
  n/evalcriteria/index.htmslide1

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Web Of Trust

• WOT is a Free Internet Security addon for Firefox
  and IE that warns you about online scams and
  risky websites that try to deliver malware or
  send spam.
• http//www.mywot.com/

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How Many Search Engines Are There?
http//www.searchenginecolossus.com/
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What is the BEST Search Engine?The one you learn
to use well.

• Googlewww.google.com
• Yahoo! Search search.yahoo.com
• Exaleadwww.exalead.com/search/
• BING
• http//www.bing.com/

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Exalead www.exalead.com/search/
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• Have you tried out this blind search tool yet? It
  provides results from Google, Yahoo and Bing in
  three columns but doesnt tell you which column
  is which search engine. You then tell it which
  one you think shows the best results, and you
  then see which answers are from which engines.

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http//blindsearch.fejus.com/
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Best Search Engine For Kids

• Ask Jeeves For Kids http//www.ajkids.com/
• KidsClick! http//www.kidsclick.org/
• Looksmart's Kids Directoryhttp//search.netnanny.
  com/?pinnh3chkids
• Yahooliganshttp//www.yahooligans.com/
• Filtering Options
• AllTheWeb Use the Basic Settings page to enable
  the Offensive Content Filter option. The only
  works for searches in English.
• AltaVista Use the Family Filter Setup page.

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Metasearch Engines

•   Beaucoup ...a metasearch engine which also
  searches some invisible Web sites      Dogpile
  ...a very fast and efficient meta-search engine
  that queries search engines, directories, Usenet
  news and FTP sites      FINDSPOT ..."a
  gateway to Internet search tools that combines
  access to these tools with example-based help"
  primarily search engines, but includes some
  directories      ixQuick Metasearch ...a
  fast, comprehensive metasearch engine with
  relevancy rankings in the results      KartOO
  ...a concept-based metasearch engine which
  provides results of the relationships between
  hits in a graphical manner      Mamma ...a
  metasearch engine that bills itself as "the
  mother of all search engines"      Metacrawler
  ...search many engines all at once     
  search.com ...a site that provides access to
  search tools arranged by type of information
  needed  WebCrawler... a meta-search search
  through thousands of sites      Zuula Search
  ...a speedy meta-search engine that searches the
  Web, images, news, blogs, and jobs

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Try finding answers to these questions by
browsing directories, using search engines, or
even using the links to different web sites found
on Research Resources page.

• What is the flavor of the day at Kopps custard?
• What is the population of the United States?
• Find a recipe for peanut butter cookies.
• Who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988?
• What film won the academy award for best picture
  in 1984?

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How to read a web addressFirst, you need to know
how to read a web address, or URL (Universal
Resource Locator). Let's look at the URL for this
tutorial http//www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/page
s/bones/bones.shtml
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http//www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bon
es.shtml

• "http" means hypertext transfer protocol and
  refers to the format used to transfer and deal
  with information
• "www" stands for World Wide Web and is the
  general name for the host server that supports
  text, graphics, sound files, etc. (It is not an
  essential part of the address, and some sites
  choose not to use it)
• "sc" is the second-level domain name and usually
  designates the server's location, in this case,
  the University of South Carolina
• "edu" is the top-level domain name (see below)
• "beaufort" is the directory name
• "library" is the sub-directory name
• "pages" and "bones" are folder and sub-folder
  names
• the second "bones" is the file name
• "shtml" is the file type extension and, in this
  case, stands for "scripted hypertext mark-up
  language" (that's the language the computer
  reads).  The addition of the "s" indicates that
  the server will scan the page for commands that
  require additional insertion before the page is
  sent to the user.

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Here is a list of the domains that have been in
operation for the past several years and are
generally accepted by all

• .edu -- educational site (usually a university or
  college)
• .com -- commercial business site
• .gov -- U.S. governmental/non-military site
• .mil -- U.S. military sites and agencies
• .net -- networks, internet service providers,
  organizations
• .org -- U.S. non-profit organizations and others

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Country codes (sample) - 2 letter extensions

• .ae    United Arab Emirates .af    Afghanistan .
  aq    Antarctica
• .at    Austria au    Australia .ca    Canada
  
• cn    China .cu    Cuba cz    Czech
  Republic
• de    Germany .fr    France uk  United
  Kingdom
• .ge    Georgia .hk    Hong Kong .il    Israel
  
• .in    India .iq    Iraq ir    Iran,
  Islamic
• .it    Italy .ke    Kenya kh    Cambodia
• .kz    Kazakhstan .lr    Liberia .np    Nepal
  
• .pk    Pakistan .ru    Russian
  Federation .rw    Rwanda
• .sa    Saudi Arabia .sd    Sudan .se    Swede
  n
• .si    Slovenia .tr    Turkey .uk   United
  Kingdom
• .us    United States .vn    Vietnam .zw    Zi
  mbabwe
• http//www.camp-sites.co.uk/
• http//www.english-heritage.org.uk/
•  
• http//www.best-sites.co.uk/
• http//www.clickz.it/

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A reputable Web page will usually provide you
with the following information be sure to

• Read the URL
• Examine the content
• Ask questions about the author/site
• Look at the links coming in/going out
• Last date page updated
• Mail-to link for questions, comments
• Name, address, telephone number, and email
  address of page owner
• (Criteria for Evaluation (2003-2008 Annette
  Lamb)

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Four NETS for Better Searching

• The first step in becoming a facile catcher of
  web pages is to master Google's Advanced Search
  form located at http//www.google.com/advanced_sea
  rch
• . Bookmark it! Drag the bookmark to your
  browser's toolbar so that it's always available.
• Four NETS for Better Searching Website
• http//webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm

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Net 1 Start Narrow

• Topic
• Lost continent of Atlantis
• Try this search...
• WITH ALL Atlantis continentWITHOUT shuttle
  film movie
• Write the number of hits you get below
• Here's how to search for it badly
• WITH ALL Atlantis

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Net 2 Find Exact Phrases

• You've heard of a fine public university in the
  lower left corner of the United States and you
  want to know more about it. Try this search...
• EXACT PHRASE San Diego State University
• Write the number of hits you get below.
• Here's how to search for it badly
• WITH ALL San Diego State University
•  
• Here are some more searches to tryEXACT
  PHRASE Bill 602P
• EXACT PHRASE We know he has weapons of mass
  destruction   EXACT PHRASE demonstrating genuine
  leadership

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Net 3 Trim Back the URL

• You found this Romeo Juliet WebQuest that you
  really like. Are there more like that where this
  one came from?
• http//chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webqu
  ests/shakespeare/
• http//artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/randj
  /artsedge.html

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Net 4 Look for Similar Pages

• Once you've found something you like on Google,
  it's very easy (and useful) to find similar
  pages.
• How?
• Below the advanced search fields that you've been
  using up until now are another two fields. These
  allow you to find pages that Google has deemed to
  be similar to or linked to any URL you type in.

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Specific Types of Documents

• PDF - service oriented architecture filetypepdf
• PPT - service oriented architecture filetypeppt
• DOC - service oriented architecture filetypedoc

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http//www.noodletools.com/index.php
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Basic Google Search

• Every word matters. All the words you put in the
  query will be used. Some exceptions see STOP
  WORDS.
• Search is always case insensitive. new york
  times is the same as searching for New York
  Times .
• With some exceptions, punctuation is ignored
  (that is, you can't search for _at_()\
• Keep it simple
• Use the words that are most likely to appear on
  the page my head hurts , say headache
• Describe what you need with as few terms as
  possible
• weather report for cancun mexico weather
  cancun

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What Are Stop Words?Some search engines don't
record extremely common words in order to save
space or to speed up searches. These are known as
"stop words." Below is a SHORT list of words
Ignored by Search Engines.
by com de enfor fromhow

• I a about an are as at
• be

in is it la of on or that
who will withundthewww
the thisto was what whenwhere
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• The title The first line of any search result is
  the title of the webpage.
• The snippet A description of or an excerpt from
  the webpage.
• The URL The webpage's address. Cached link A
  link to an earlier version of this page.
• Click here if the page you wanted isn't
  available.

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More search help

• Phrase search ("") Putting double quotes around a
  set of words,tells Google to consider the exact
  words
• Search within a specific website (site)Google
  allows you to specify that your search results
  must come from a given website. For example, the
  query
• iraq sitenytimes.com will return pages
  about Iraq but only from nytimes.com.
• Terms you want to exclude (-)
• Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word
  indicates that you do not want pages that contain
  this word to appear in your results. - should
  appear immediately before the word and should be
  preceded with a space. For example, in the query
  anti-virus software , the minus sign is used
  as a hyphen and will not be interpreted as an
  exclusion symbol whereas the query anti-virus
  -software will search for the words
  'anti-virus' but exclude references to software.

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Google Advanced Search
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Lets check out General Thomas Gage

• American Revolution
• General
• Governor of Boston
• Battles in Boston
• Movies
• TV
• Film
• Photos

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Lets look only at United Kingdom sites
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Results 1 - 10 of about 442 for american
revolution general thomas gage battles "general
thomas gage site.uk.

• American Revolution Timeline
• Visit this site for this American Revolution
  Timeline detailing Key dates and events. ... May
  13 General Thomas Gage replaces Hutchinson as
  Royal governor and ... October 28 Battle of White
  Plains force General Washington to retreat to
  ...www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/
  01-american-revolution-timeline.htm - 43k
• BBC - h2g2 - The Declaration of Independence
• Jun 14, 2001 ... The British general Thomas Gage,
  acting as the governor of the Massachusetts
  colony, ... The situation continued to escalate,
  as the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought, .....
  Seeds of the American Revolution
  ...www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A430561 - 59k - Cached
  - Similar pages -
• Gresham College Audio and Video
• The American Revolution 1763 - 1783 Separation
  and Divorce ..... to Boston to join the 4000
  already there under the command of General Thomas
  Gage. ... a battle began at the bridge in
  Concord, and the Redcoats, or lobster-backs,
  ...www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?EventId144PageId
  108 - 44k - The English In America
• The military governor of Massachusetts, General
  Thomas Gage, ... American War of Independence
  also known in the United States as the American
  Revolution. ...www.wearetheenglish.co.uk/america3
  .html - 28k - Cached - Similar pages -

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Google Wonder wheel
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The Five Ws of Web Site Evaluation

• CHECKING THE VITAL INFORMATION 2001-2008 by
  Kathy Schrock (kathy_at_kathyschrock.net)

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• WHO
• Who wrote the pages and are they an expert?
• Is a biography of the author included?
• How can you find out more about the author?
• WHAT
• What does the author say is the purpose of the
  site?
• What else might the author have in mind for the
  site?
• What makes the site easy to use?
• WHEN
• When was the site created?
• When was the site last updated?
• WHERE
• Where does the information come from?
• Where can I look to find out more about the
  producer/sponsor?
• WHY
• Why is this information useful for my purpose?
• Why should I use this information?
• Why is this page better than another?

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tree octopushttp//zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
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Mankato, Minnesota http//city-mankato.us/
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• I. Authority
• Is there an author? Is the page signed? Is the
  author qualified? An expert? Who is the
  sponsor? Is the sponsor of the page reputable?
  How reputable? Is there a link to information
  about the author or the sponsor? If the page
  includes neither a signature nor indicates a
  sponsor, is there any other way to determine its
  origin?
• Look for a header or footer showing affiliation.
• Look at the URL. http//www.fbi.gov
• Look at the domain. .edu, .com, .ac.uk, .org,
  .net
• Rationale
• Anyone can publish anything on the web.
• It is often hard to determine a web page's
  authorship.
• Even if a page is signed, qualifications are not
  usually provided.
• Sponsorship is not always indicated.

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Looks Too Good To Be True http//www.lookstoogood
tobetrue.com/ This website was developed to
arm you with information so you dont fall victim
to these Internet scam artists. Education, good
judgment, and a healthy dose of skepticism are
the best defenses against becoming a victim.
Remember, if it looks too good to be true, it
probably is!
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Check these sites to verify spoofs, hoaxes, urban
legends or myths you may have read
aboutAbout.com Urban LegendsCDC Health Hoaxes
RumorsHoaxbustersVmythsSnopes.com
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The Wayback Machinehttp//www.archive.org/web/web
.phpBrowse through over 150 billion web pages
archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start
surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a
site or page where you would like to start, and
press enter. Then select from the archived dates
available. The resulting pages point to other
archived pages at as close a date as possible.
Keyword searching is not currently supported.
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Alta Vista Special Commands
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Learning how to use the key commands

• Using the LINK Command
• Using the SITE Command
• Using the HOST Command
• Using the DOMAIN Command
• Using the TITLE Command
• Using the TEXT Command
• Using the INURL Command
• Using the IMAGE Command
• Using the WHOIS Command

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How do I find sites from another country to
observe their content and perspective on topics?
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SPECIAL FEATURES Alta Vista

• domaindomainname Finds pages within the
  specified domain. Use domainuk to find pages
  from the United Kingdom, or use domaincom to
  find pages from commercial sites.
•  
• hosthostname Finds pages on a specific computer.
  The search hostwww.shopping.com would find pages
  on the Shopping.com computer, and
  hostdilbert.unitedmedia.com would find pages on
  the computer called dilbert at unitedmedia.com.
•  
• linkURLtext Finds pages with a link to a page
  with the specified URL text. Use
  linkwww.myway.com to find all pages linking to
  myway.com.
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Using the DOMAIN Command

• Search in a specific countryUse the "domain"
  command to find articles from a specific
  top-level domain only. Domain/Country Code Index
• Want to know what the UK newspapers are writing
  about Alan Greenspan? Search for domainuk alan
  greenspan.
• Are you interested in what the Australian press
  is writing about Microsoft? Search for domainau
  microsoft.

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Using the DOMAIN Command

• Using the DOMAIN command and ONLY for ACADEMIC
  Sites
• hostac.uk "american revolution
• AltaVista found 5,210 results 

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domainac.uk "american revolution "general
thomas gageAltaVista found 14 results 
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www.altavista.com
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Using the SITE Command
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Why Did The American Colonists Revolt?Thomas Ash
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• A complex mythology has been built up around the
  American Revolution it is a national story of
  great significance to the way the United States
  views itself. But the mythology is just that - a
  mythology. Contrary to the picture presented in
  American primary schools, the Americans were not
  a separate, turkey-eating people, subjugated by
  the cruel, tyrannical and essentially foreign
  British. In fact, many colonists thought of
  themselves as British. Historians accept that the
  American Revolution had a wide variety of motives
  and causes these included slightly differing
  political traditions, the economic interests of
  both parties, the trading interests of those
  directly or indirectly involved in transatlantic
  commerce, the large debt Britain had accumulated
  in the wake of the Seven Years War, and a fair
  amount of mutual misunderstanding as well.

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• host
• looks in the name of the hosting Web server, such
  as www.stlcc.cc.mo.us
• Search on a specific siteYou can use the "host"
  command to find articles from a specific site
  only.
• Want to read what the New York Times is writing
  about President Bush? hostnytimes.com president
  bush
• Want to read the latest stories from CNN on any
  topic? Search for hostcnn.com.
• host command host www.stlcc.mo.us
  (AltaVista found 500 results) 
• We can get different results if we do not have a
  space in the correct area
• host www.stlcc.mo.us NO SPACE We found 0
  results
• Demo with Alta Vista
• www.altavista.com

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Using the host command and ONLY for ACADEMIC
Sites hostac.uk "american revolution
AltaVista found 5,210 results 

• Lets take a look at what the British have to say
  about our American Revolution
• Type in the following in Alta Vista Search Engine
  (ac means academic)
• hostac.uk "american revolution "general gage"
  (note there is a space after .uk and no space
  before ac)

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Using the LINK Commandat www.altavista.com

• linkHypertext links include the term(s).
  linknotess.com finds pages with links to this
  site
• Sample
• linkwww.cilc.org

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AltaVista found 5,940 results (NOSPACE) 
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http//techtracer.com/2008/01/06/10-most-amazing-g
oogle-search-tricks/
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Truth or Trash

• California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge Ken
  Umbach's obvious but amusing satirical piece of
  writing for students in Early to Late
  Adolescence.

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• Aluminum Foil Deflector BeanieShield your brain
  from mind control.

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Jo Cool or Jo Fool http//www.media-awareness.c
a/english/games/jocool_jofool/

• This interactive online module takes students
  through a CyberTour of twelve mock Web sites to
  test their savvy surfing skills.It includes a
  20-question online quiz that provides additional
  food for thought about the Web issues that the
  brother and sister team Josie and Joseph Cool
  encounter.Jo Cool or Jo Fool is also accompanied
  by an extensive Teacher's Guide, that contains
  background information for teachers, and
  questions and classroom activities for students,
  about online issues such as marketing, privacy,
  safety, responsible Internet use and
  authenticating information.

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Gullible http//www.gullible.info/
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Who Owns This Site ?
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http//www.google.com/help/features.html

• Improve Your Search Experience
• In addition to providing easy access to billions
  of web pages, Google has many special features to
  help you to find exactly what you're looking for.
  Some of our most popular features are listed
  below.

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• Weather To see the weather for many U.S. and
  worldwide cities, type "weather" followed by the
  city and state, U.S. zip code, or city and
  country. Example   weather San Francisco

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• Stock Quotes To see current market data for a
  given company or fund, type the ticker symbol
  into the search box. On the results page, you can
  click the link to see more data from Google
  Finance. Example   CSCO

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Keep track of the stocks

• With the booming stock market it is very
  important to track the stocks on a day to day
  basis. Putting a stock ticker in the search box
  is the most obvious thing you would think of. But
  it is not always you would remember the stock
  ticker, you should add the keyword stocks to
  the company name.
• The best part of the obtained result is that it
  provides a chart which shows the trend in the
  companys stock along with important statistics.
• stocks INFY
• Note Currently the results are restricted to the
  companies listed in the US stock markets.

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• Time To see the time in many cities around the
  world, type in "time" and the name of the city.
  Example   time London

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• Calculator To use Google's built-in calculator
  function, simply enter the calculation you'd like
  done into the search box. Example   59(sqrt
  10)3

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• Unit Conversion You can use Google to convert
  between many different units of measurement of
  height, weight, and mass among others. Just enter
  your desired conversion into the search box and
  well do the rest. Example   10.5 cm in inches

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• Dictionary Definitions To see a definition for a
  word or phrase, simply type the word "define"
  then a space, then the word(s) you want defined.
  To see a list of different definitions from
  various online sources, you can type "define"
  followed by a word or phrase. Note that the
  results will define the entire phrase. Example
   Define philosophy

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• Currency Conversion To use our built-in currency
  converter, simply enter the conversion youd like
  done into the Google search box and well provide
  your answer directly on the results page.
• Example   150 GBP in USD

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• Fill in the Blank Sometimes the best way to ask
  a question is to get Google to fill in the
  blank by adding an asterisk () at the part of
  the sentence or question that you want finished
  into the Google search box. Example Isaac
  Newton discovered

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Scholarly Search

• For this use the Google scholar search. But
  suppose you dont like to switch to Google
  scholar search you can add the same query with an
  additional parameter to the normal Google search
  box,
• service oriented architecture filetypepdf
  siteedu
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Meanings of any word in an instant

• Just use the define keyword. The meaning would
  of course be displayed but also a set of other
  links which might have an alternative definition
  are also given out with the link to read more
  about it.
• definebeureaucracy

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Google Gulp http//www.google.com/googlegulp/

• At Google our mission is to organize the world's
  information and make it useful and accessible to
  our users.But any piece of information's
  usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from
  the cognitive ability of the user who's using it.
  That's why we're pleased to announce Google Gulp
  (BETA) with Auto-Drink (LIMITED RELEASE), a line
  of "smart drinks" designed to maximize your
  surfing efficiency by making you more
  intelligent, and less thirsty.
•  

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Teaching Brock To Search

• Dr. Howie DiBlasi
• Twitter hdiblasi
• Digital Journey
• Emerging Technologies Evangelist
• howie_at_frontier.net
• 970-749-0760
• www.drhowie.com
• www.toolsfortheclassroom.com