Google Tips from Google

"Find a card you like and "flip" it over to learn more. You can share your favorites with friends and even suggest tips for us to add. We'll keep adding new cards, so come back often to check out what's new."

Check it out @ https://www.google.com/get/googletips/.

Food fight

Wondering the relative nutritional value of two different foods?  Try using the "vs" keyword as in rutabaga vs brussel sprouts

Google Voice Search comes to Chrome

Newer version of Google Search on Android include the voice search feature that allows yout to perform your search via voice. If you're a Chrome user and would like to add that feature to your browser, just head on over to the Chrome Web Store and install the free Google Voice Search Hotword app. After that, just look for the microphone icon in any Google search box, click it, and say "OK Google" to get started.

Cars now in the knowledge graph

Here's an example of a Knowledge Graph result for toyota:

Google Scholar Library

You can now save Google Scholar results into a personal library:

You can save articles right from the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar's full-text search & ranking to quickly find just the one you want - at any time and from anywhere. You decide what goes into your library and we’ll provide all the goodies that come with Scholar search results - up to date article links, citing articles, related articles, formatted citations, links to your university’s subscriptions, and more. And if you have a public Scholar profile, it’s easy to quickly set up your library with the articles you want - with a single click, you can import all the articles in your profile as well as all the articles they cite.

Learn more on the Google Scholar Blog.

Build your own Google Custom Search

Kif Leswing over at Wired has a great article covering the basics of creating a Google Custom Search.

 

Read the full article @ Wired.com.

Google Books Scanning Project Declared Fair Use

Here's the full ruling. It's only 30 pages and is well worth reading.

Google Books ruling on fair use.pdf by jeff_roberts881