Tuesday, May 7, 2013

GAFE

Google Search

Google search is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. It is the most common engine on the web. Google uses a certain algorithm that is confidential to the company. Certain facts of this algorithm are altered when someone searches anything. Google uses spiders and crawlers. These are different programs that lead to keywords. These are the ones that give you different results. Google has a system named PlaceRank were it gives a relevancy score to each page. This is when the order of the appearance of the results is altered.  This PlaceRank has different factors. These include the frequency of keywords in the page and the amount of time that the webpage has existed. Google search wan be very specific if you want to. You can use some of the search tools to change the location, the day of the articles and even the type of results you get.

There are different ways to search anything and get the results you want. This picture explain how everything works.



Google scholar is one of the tools that Google search has. Your search is directly filtered into scholar and academic work. These are more a curate pieces of information that will help the accuracy of your search. The results you get on Google Scholars are the type of pages you want to cite on a report.

As many websites on the web, there are different tricks to it.
If you want to define any word, type 'define:' before it and Google will display results quicker on y our screen.




If you type an equation on to Google, it will give you the answer with no need of opening a calculator app.


Google will also work as a unit converter.

There are some keyword shortcuts that you can use while you are using Google Chrome. Some include:

Ctrl + F                Finding tool
Ctrl +  - / +          Zoom in/Zoom out
Ctrl + L                Select the address bar
Ctrl + Shift + 3/4  Screenshot

Wanna have some fun? Go to http://www.mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-gravity/

A search engine such as Google is very important on a daily basis. Without a search engine as this one, it would be impossible to gather any information on the web. Learning how to use it is fundamental but learning different tricks to it will just make it easier and fun. This tool is helpful for teachers because they can expand their knowledge, gain different work material and learn from the different points of view of everyone on the web. Students often use Google search as their resource for any piece of school work. Knowing things such as how to preform a basic google search properly will give a better quality to their work.


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