Monday, May 6, 2013

GAFE

Google Search

what is it?
It is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. It is the most-used search engine on the world wide web receiving several hundred million queries each day through its various services

how does it work?
Google is used for searching whatever you like or need. so you go to google.com and write on the search bar what you are looking for. you press enter or the botton google search and it will give you thousands of links that have to do with the topic that you were looking for.

how do certain websites get to be on page on or at the top of search
1. have to make sure that your website is ready and perfect.
2. optimize your web with keywords that are highly with your website content.
3. create a sitemap file for your website. to created there are free online or offline tools that can help you.
4. upload the site map file to your website root directory.
5. log in at google webmasters support, tools using your free Google account.
6. type your website url in the add site field on the top of the google site map page and click ok.
7. click the add side map link on the right of your website name.
8. choose general website map on the choose type option link
9. wait for 2 or 3 days and tada your website is on google
depending on how much it is seen and the content it has, then it will decide if its in the first page or not.

tricks
microphone: speak to the computer what you want to search and it will search it for you with out you typing it on the search bar.
I'm feeling lucky: if you click the im feeling lucky button, it will randomly choose something, and it will take you to it. for example i did it and mine said im feeling wonderful, so it took me to see pictures of the wonders of the world.
math: you can type in the search m=bar something related to math and google will do it for you without taking you to another website. for example converting 5 meters into feet, google did it for me.
about: when you search something, under the search bar it will tell you how many results there are and how long it took google to find all of those results.
Google doodles: doodles are the fun changes that are made to the google logo to celebrate many different things. google has created over a thousands doodles and with some you can interact with them. If you click them it will take you to the search of that day. for example Christmas it will take you to the birth of Jesus or something like that. There is also the google doodle store with has doodles on cards, tshirts etc, and you can buy them.

google scholar
it is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and discipline. it includes most peer-reviewed online journals of europe and americas largest scholarly publishers plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals. simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
features: search all scholarly literature from one convenient place, explore related works sitations, authors, and publications, locate the complete document through your library or on the web, keep up with any recent developments in any area of research, and check who is citing your publications or create a public author profile.
how are documents ranked: google scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature.
search tips: for finding recent papers: use the since year option or sort by date. or you can click the envelope icon to have new results periodically delivered by mail.   
you can search by author, title date, court opinions, and specific jurisdictions.
you can also paraphrase using google scholar

helpful google youtube links 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1ZwgDeX2eQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJByIPRrTfE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlhXBf4oxso




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