From the 2009 CSAE Annual Meeting in Loveland, CO

1. Making Google
Work for You
Rhonda Scurek

2. “Trying to get information from the Internet
is like trying to drink water from a fire
hose.”
American Academy of Neurology
www.aam.com

3. Google Fun Facts
 Google's mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful .”
 Founded in September 4, 1998 in Menlo Park, CA by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were
students at Stanford University

The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California.

As of March 31, 2009, the company has 20,164 full-time employees.
 The company has been identified multiple times as Fortune Magazine's #1 Best Place to Work and as
the most powerful brand in the world according to the Millward Brown Group.
 The name "Google" originated from a common misspelling of the word "googol", which refers to 10100,
the number represented by a 1 followed by one hundred zeros.
 The verb "google”, was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English
Dictionary in 2006, meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet."

4.  BasicGoogling
 Never Give Up
 Advanced Searches
 Google Alerts
 Bonus Sites

5. Advanced Search Techniques
 Competitors Name
+ Month Year +
Conferences &
Meetings
 Phone Number
 Company Name +
City State

6. Bonus Sites
 www.tripadvisoros.com
 www.theconferencecalendar.com
 www.linkpopularity.com

7. Questions???
Thank you for your time.