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June 27, 2012

Become a Google Power Searcher

Filed under: Search Engines,Search Interface,Searching — Patrick Durusau @ 9:15 am

Become a Google Power Searcher by Terry Ednacot.

From the post:

You may already be familiar with some shortcuts for Google Search, like using the search box as a calculator or finding local movie showtimes by typing [movies] and your zip code. But there are many more tips, tricks and tactics you can use to find exactly what you’re looking for, when you most need it.

Today, we’ve opened registration for Power Searching with Google, a free, online, community-based course showcasing these techniques and how you can use them to solve everyday problems. Our course is aimed at empowering you to find what you need faster, no matter how you currently use search. For example, did you know that you can search for and read pages written in languages you’ve never even studied? Identify the location of a picture your friend took during his vacation a few months ago? How about finally identifying that green-covered book about gardening that you’ve been trying to track down for years? You can learn all this and more over six 50-minute classes.

Lessons will be released daily starting on July 10, 2012, and you can take them according to your own schedule during a two-week window, alongside a worldwide community. The lessons include interactive activities to practice new skills, and many opportunities to connect with others using Google tools such as Google Groups, Moderator and Google+, including Hangouts on Air, where world-renowned search experts will answer your questions on how search works. Googlers will also be on hand during the course period to help and answer your questions in case you get stuck.

I know, I know, you are way beyond using Google but you may know some people who are not.

Try to suggest this course in a positive way, i.e., non-sneering sort of way.

Will be a new experience.

You may want to “audit” the course.

Would be unfortunate for someone to ask you a Google search question you can’t answer.

😉

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