Presentation for 'Information YOUR Way'

1. Information * Y O U R * Way NYSCATE Hudson Valley Conference March 8, 2008 Nancy Sharoff [email_address]

2. Note: All these services require that you have a gmail account. If you do not, go to www.gmail.com to sign up for one.

3. G o o g l e ’s Mission ‘ Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.’ Retrieved 3/6/08 from http://www.google.com/corporate

4. Today’s Mission Image by gaurang at flickr.com

6. Image by Marc Shandro at flickr.com Search…ing

8. 1 st – Set your Preferences

10. 2,410,000 Oceans =

11. Advanced Search…ing Image by bionicteaching at flickr.com

13. File Format:

14. Oceans + .ppt = 15,900

15. Domain:

16. Oceans + .ppt + .edu = 5,090

17. Shortcuts: site:[type] filetype:[file extension] no dots needed!........

18. Other

19. Enable ^History^ by going to www.google.com/history and you can see where you’ve been. Where Have You Been?

20. If there is a result that is indented, it is related to the above referenced result.

21. D i d Y o u K n o w ? 4 6 6 4 5 3

22. D i d Y o u K n o w ? time:[name of place]

23. D i d Y o u K n o w ? define:[word]

24. D i d Y o u K n o w ? Fill-in-the-Blank Mt. Everest is * feet high

25. D i d Y o u K n o w ? related:[url w/o ‘http://’]

26. Customized Search

27. http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

29. Once you create one, go to ‘manage your existing search engines’

30. ‘ Homepage’ View

31. ‘ Control Panel’ View

32. ‘ Statistics’ View

33. NEWS news.google.com

35. ‘ Advanced News Search’ Option

36. Google Alerts

37. Google Reader www.google.com/reader

38. Item View – Expanded View

39. Item View – List View

40. Settings - Subscription

41. Settings - Tags

42. Settings – Tags ‘ add a clip to your site’

43. Settings - Goodies

44. Settings - Goodies

45. Settings - Friends

46. Q U E S T I O N S ?