Friday, January 17, 2014

Google Image Search Usage Rights Filter Now Front and Center

Since 2009, filtering by usage rights has been a part of the Advanced Search when doing a Google Image search. Recently, that feature was made more prominent - it's now available under the Search Tools option after you've done an image search.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Find Unadvertised Job Openings with a Clever Google Search

In the Google search below, I am asking Google to look only on the Taleo.net website (where their system hosts various unadvertised jobs that are typically obtainable when a jobseeker does a search on a company’s careers website). I do this when I search: “site:taleo.net” Afterward, I ask Google to find only those webpages that have “careers” in the title. This is what “intitle:careers” means. Finally, I add in the job title “programmer” because that is the job I am looking for. Of course, just adding a job title is giving me too many broad results. I narrow it down by adding more keywords like “SAS” and “macro.”

Read the full article @ Lifehacker.com.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

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/.

Sunday, December 8, 2013

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.


Friday, November 22, 2013

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.