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Introduction Obtaining a Google account Google Products Search tips Databases 2

Google Drive Docs Chart Tools Maps, Street View, Traffic Google Earth Picasa - Google image storage and editing tools Google+ - Social Networking 3

Google Mobile Google Talk – voic , international calling Maps, Street View, Traffic GPS Google Chrome Compatible across desktop & mobile Android devices Access to “Extensions” and “Add-Ons” Google+ - Social Networking Circles, Google Hangout 4

Google’s share of internet searches is greater than 65% 1 Googlebots! Spiders are deployed on the web to build copies of webpage content. Popular sites may be scanned several times per hour. PageRank: Reliability and relevance of a site are calculated using 200+ different variables. Reliability of a site depends heavily on the reliability of the sites linking to it. Word proximity and placement Words in “title” of webpage can influence the page rank.  Source: ComScore Oct Search Engine Ranking. goo.gl/opp1H goo.gl/opp1H 5

Provides access to: Drive – Documents, Charts, Presentations Calendar Gmail YouTube Maps Images 6

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Doesn’t allow for word truncation. Some automatic “stemming” happens “behinds the scenes”. Phrase Searching – Use double-quote “ “ Asterisk “*” searches for missing words in a phrase, e.g., laryngeal * airway (laryngeal mask airway OR laryngeal airway) Search operators : + - OR AND 9

Phrase - “tropical sprue” Site – “malaria vaccine” site:cdc.gov Allintitle - allintitle: prevalence “hepatitis b” Intitle – First word in title, following word in body (e.g. intitle: “yellow fever” nigeria Filetype – “google search tips” file type: pdf, doc, pptx, etc. 10

e.g. allintitle: “water pollution” site:who.int Can also add file type: at end of search 11

allintitle: “water pollution” site:who.int Define: allintitle What time is it bethesda maryland Flight time airline and flight number Find things like: use the ~ (e.g. ~nutrition) Allintext - results in web pages containing search terms only in the text and not in description,title, urls etc. 12

Define : “malignant hyperthermia” Calculator – type in a formula [enter] answer Conversion – usd in pounds [enter] answer; or kg to lb World time - Time London [enter] Local movie – ender’s game 94061[enter] 13

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“ Scholarly” with Google Scholar Indexed for Stanford’s libraries Images Translation Books News Videos Blogs 16

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Includes documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing, and forms. Share documents for collaboration and editing. Add files with upload feature Store files in folders Publish files on the web. 24

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Handy utility for finding places. Directions from one location to another Provides actual pictures of selected locations using “Street View” Great traffic visualizer 27

Fascinating geography viewer Imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings Provides a wide array of overlays (e.g. restaurants, parks, etc.) Provides astronomy viewer CTRL+ALT+A provides flight simulator 28

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Revert to Google.com’s English site in the U.S. 30

Organize, edit, and share your photos Scan your computer for photos Annotate and upload photos to web Various sharing optons Photo editing with new features 1GB free storage 31

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Google’s own browser. Compatible across desktop and your mobile Android devices. Allows you to use “Extensions” and “Add- ons” 34

Homepage for Google+ Google+ Circles Events Pages Interacts with Picasa Google Hangout (like Skype) 35

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ULR shortener goo.gl QR code generator createqrcode.appspot.com Sites – create a website sites.google.com Google Talk talk.google.com Patents Search patents.google.com

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Google Guide Advanced Search Inside Search Search Operators support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.pys?hl=en&answer=

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Personalized ads – persistent, but modifiable Ads on the web – can be removed completely 41

Comprehensive list available at:

Christopher Stave, MLS Lane Medical Library