My name is Claude.

1. Oodles of Googles
Everything you wanted to know
about Google and more!

2. Oodles a superabundance of
anything; a mass of things; a
heap; a great quantity.

3. That’s a lot of Google!

4. What’s on the menu?
• Google +
• Search
• Gears
• Talk
• Calendar
• Gmail
• Site
• Knol
• iGoogle
• Talk and so much more……

5. Before we start let’s think about what
Google is doing.

6. We are in the age of cloud computing
and Google is creating application
stacks.

7. Cloud Computing
Stacking Apps in
the cloud
Google Search
Blogger
Youtube
Picassa
Google docs
Android
Google Calendar
Google Reader
Google Images
Get the idea

8. Which is awesome
unless….

10. FRIENDS

11. Who am I to you?
Employee
Mother
Friend
Relative
Gamer
Writer
Cook
Movie Fan
Reader
Sister/Brother

12. Google has created circles
Work friends
Relatives Acquaintances

13. This gives you PRIVACY

14. My circles

15. Who can see my profile?

16. Hint about +1

17. Photos

19. Streams and newsfeeds are the same

20. Sparks

21. Sparks and comments

22. Hangout

23. Mobile apps

24. More Mobile

25. Even more mobile

26. Chrome

27. Google+ and Facebook

29. Privacy and
your rights!

32. Facebook’s privacy
agreement is 5830 words
U.S. Constitution is 4543
words

33. Breaking news 11.11.2011
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/facebook-settlement-will-make-all-
future-privacy-changes-opt-in.ars

34. Google changes how it searches.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/giving-you-fresher-more-recent-
search.html

35. Search (Tips and Tricks)
• Try the site: operator to limit the search to a specific site.
• Example oil site:nytimes.com

36. Search (Tips and Tricks)
• Use Google as a calculator.
• Use it as a world clock

37. Search (Tips and Tricks)
• Currency conversion
• Area code finder

38. Search (Tips and Tricks)
• Word definition

39. Search (Tips and Tricks)
• ~ Helps you find related terms.

40. Search (Tips and Tricks)
• Explicit Phrase: “What is Happiness?” An easy way to narrow your search.

41. Search (Tips and Tricks)
• Date ranges: Search Term War 2000..2008

42. Google Books

43. Google Books

44. Google Books

45. Google Books

46. Gears formerly Google Gears
• This is a piece of software that is offered by Google that enable powerful
applications and new features to work in your web browser.

47. Gmail
• Gears allows you to use Gmail while you are offline.
• You can read mail, label it and compose messages this is all synchronized
the next time you connect.

48. Gmail (Get driving directions)
• If you enter the address into the email a map link will appear in the right
hand column.

49. Gmail Tasks
• You can use Gmail to create a task list.

50. Gmail Tasks

51. Gmail Tasks
You can create multiple lists.
You can edit details and add notes.

52. Gmail now has a new look and feel

53. Gmail (All work and no play…)
• You can have some fun and play with themes of your Gmail account.
Before

54. Gmail (All work and no play…)
How to …
1. Go to settings -> Theme Tab.

55. Gmail (All work and no play…)
• After.

56. Gmail and labels
• Label are just folders where you can organize your email massages.
Go to settings and pick
the labels tab to create
a new label.

57. Did you know you can search only blogs?
This is found under
the “More” menu
item in Google+ and
then click on even
more link at the
bottom.
http://www.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en

58. You can search patents.
http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en

59. You can search by product.
http://www.google.com/prdhp

60. Results of e-book reader search

61. Google calendar
• Before

62. Google calendar
• After

63. Google calendar (Customize your view)
• Settings -> General Settings -> Custom View
Before
After
You can customize the time
period you would like be
visible. One week or two

64. Google calendar (Show weather on your calendar)
• Settings -> General -> Show weather based on my location and enter zip
code.

65. Google calendar shortcuts

66. Google Buzz (Built into Gmail and looks like this )
Buzz works as a kind of social media integrator. I am going to add Twitter,
Flickr and other stuff.

67. Google Buzz
• Your Google profile is where you add your other Social Media.
Ok so I fiddled with it for 30 minutes and could get it to do
anything helpful.

68. Not a fan of Buzz
• I use my profile post section to review and comment back

69. Google site (http://sites.google.com/)

70. Google Accounts
• There are some really helpful tools that use all the time in the accounts
section.

71. Google Account
Google alerts are emails that are sent to you when
Google finds a new search result that match your
search term. These could be web pages, blogs,
twitter comments. I use them to alert me to what
people are saying about the library.
This is another great tool
that we use to analyze
our web traffic.

72. Knol

74. Bonus Material

75. Thanks
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Email: srobinson@acpl.info