Patrick Crispen's presentation at NCTIES, 2011.

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2. Keeping up with the Googlebots (Spring 2011 Edition) a presentation by Patrick Douglas Crispen, Ed.D. NetSquirrel.com

3. Google.com

4. Advanced Search: Reading Level Enter your search terms. On the results page, click Advanced search. ‘Basic’ = elementary level texts ‘Intermediate’ = more advanced texts ‘Advanced’ = you have got to be kidding

5. Google Instant

6. How Google Instant Works Start typing and Google starts searching. You no longer need to click the “Google Search” or “I’m Feeling Lucky” buttons to see your results. Google predicts your search and shows the results before you finish typing. “Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search.”

7. Filtering the “Bad” Stuff Google does a pretty good [and constantly-improving] job of filtering out most offensive materials from Google Instant suggestions. Search for a ‘blacklisted’ word or phrase and nothing displays … until you press Enter.

8. Autocomplete Me Part of the Cheezburger Network of sites [and not affiliated with Google], Autocomplete Me is a collection of screen grabs of Google Suggest results. Note: Some of the screen grabs are old and may contain offensive language. autocompleteme.com

9. Recipes Search for an ingredient, food, or event and then click ‘Recipes’. You can then refine your search by additional ingredients, cooking time, and even calories.

10. More Search Tools On the results page, click “Show search tools”. This gives you more search options including Related searches Sites with images Translated foreign pages

11. Refine Your Searches by Location Click “nearby” to limit results to pages that are … well … nearby. You can choose to see results either near your default location or near a custom location. You can also narrow results to the city, region, or state level.

12. Timeline Shows you historical results for your search terms.

13. Wonder Wheel The Wonder Wheel shows search terms related to what you searched for. Navigate through the relevant key words and phrases to find more and more results. Click “Standard view” to view the original results.

14. Additional Options ‘Sites with images’ displays a handful of images per hit. ‘Related Searches’ shows sites that are related to your original search term. ‘Translated foreign pages’ looks for hits on pages written in languages other than English and then translates those pages for you.

15. Sidebar Options at Other Google Sites images.google.com video.google.com

16. Google Image Swirl Google Image Swirl works a little like the Wonder Wheel for images. It clusters images based on their visual and semantic similarities. image-swirl.googlelabs.com

17. Lock Safe Search Google now lets you lock Safe Search filtering. Go to google.com/preferences and click Lock Safe Search. This will filter explicit text and explicit images from your search results across over 200 Google sites. NOTE: You must do this in each web browser on your computer.

18. Checking that Safe Search is on If you see four colored balls in the top right corner of the results screen, Safe Search is on. You will also see “SafeSearch is Locked” under the search box. Note: No filter can block every explicit text or image.

19. Google Earth

20. Historical Aerial Imagery Click the Clock icon to enable historic imagery. Drag the slider to year you want. Suggestion: Warsaw , Poland (1935 and 1945)

21. Google news

22. Google Fast Flip fastflip.googlelabs.com Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines, and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. A mobile version is available for Android and the iPhone.

23. Google chrome

24. google.com/chrome Based on WebKit, Chrome is a new-ish browser from Google. Like the Google homepage, the Chrome interface is minimalistic. Best features: security and speed.

25. Youtube

26. YouTube Enhancements Maximum length increased from 10 to 15 minutes. “Jump to” using your keyboard. Click the video. Use you keyboard to jump to a particular part of the video 0 = beginning 1 = 10% in … 9 = 90% in

27. YouTube HTML5 Beta youtube.com/html5 If you have Safari 4 or Google Chrome, you can choose to use the HTML5 player instead of the Flash player for most YouTube videos. This is an opt-in beta trial, so expect some bugs.

28. YouTube Leanback Designed for large screens [e.g., televisions], YouTube leanback autoplays videos in full screen and HD (when available). Looking for the search box? Just start typing. Press the down arrow on your keyboard to browse. youtube.com/leanback

29. Google code And apps

30. Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office Like the collaborative features of Google Docs but prefer to keep using Microsoft Office? Cloud Connect is an Office plug-in that lets you share, backup, and simultaneously edit Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel documents. Windows only and requires Office 2003, 2007, or 2010. tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect

31. Google Public DNS One cause of slow page loads, especially on complex web pages, is slow DNS lookups. Google has made their incredibly speedy DNS servers available to the public at no cost. For more information, visit code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ Note: I would not recommend this for travelers—some hotel connections require you to use the hotel’s DNS. code.google.com/speed/public-dns

32. Google Goggles Google Googles is a visual search application that lets you search the web by taking a picture with your Android’s or iPhone’s camera. For more information: google.com/mobile/goggles Oh, and it solves Sudoku puzzles too.

33. Old (but cool) stuff

34. Google URL Shortener goo.gl Paste a long URL in the box. Google will convert that URL to a goo.gl shortcut. Add .qr to the end of any goo.gl-shortened URL to convert it into a QR code.

35. Google Moderator google.com/moderator Google Moderator is a free tool that allows distributed communities to submit and vote on questions for talks, presentations, and events. Participants vote on whether or not the questions are ‘good.’ Moderator automatically tallies the votes and displays the best questions first.

36. LIFE Photo Archive Millions of photographs from the LIFE archive are now included in Google Image Search. Browse the archive directly or add source:life to limit your search to the LIFE archive http://images.google.com/hosted/life

37. Google Dictionary Google Dictionary lets you search through the Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. It includes not only definitions but also Pronunciations, Conjugations, Related phrases, Related languages, and Usage examples. It works with English words as well as words from 20 other languages. dictionary.google.com

38. Google Translate Enter your text, document, or URL in the text box and Google will [attempt to] translate that text into another language. Supports over 50 languages, including Latin. Also available for Android and iPhone: Live audio translation. translate.google.com

39. Google Help google.com/support Google now has a unified help center, categorized by activity [e.g., “searching, shopping, and browsing the web”] The search box at the top of the help center is actually a custom search engine that searches over 200 Google sites.

40. Google graveyard

41. Requiescat in Pace Web-only alerts from Google Alerts (June 2010) Google Wave (August 2010) Google 411 (Nov 2010) Messages, files, and pages in Google Groups (2011) Google Desktop (?) FreeFoto.com

42. keeping up

43. Google Announcements For more information about what’s new and what’s next at Google, I recommend visiting the following sites: Google Newwww.google.com/newproducts Google Labslabs.google.com Google Bloggoogleblog.blogspot.com Google Operating Systemgooglesystem.blogspot.com

44. Keeping up with the Googlebots (Spring 2011 Edition) a presentation by Patrick Douglas Crispen, Ed.D NetSquirrel.com

45. This work is licensed by Patrick Crispen to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. All other rights reserved.