Googlebots from Patrick Crispen
The Googlebots send Google a complete copy of the entire Web page.
http://netsquirrel.com/ - to see his old presentation on how Google works and gets a page rank
Patrick gives permission to use his presentations under Creative Commons
Google 411
Call 1-800-goog411 will text the directions or map to cell phone, doesn’t offer residential information . . . yet
Google Mobile Maps is a dowloadable cell phone application, see real time traffic information; google.gmm; more cell phone stuff mobile.google.com
in google maps set location and then type ribs in [location]
Google Research Tools
books.google.com
full text searching of thousands of books – adding ~ 3,000 books a day
Google has scanned and you can search the content of books to let you know where the word you are searching for occurs in the book, but won’t let you read the book online (with a few exceptions)
scholar.google.com
limits searches to peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles
news.google.com
news archive search – can find out where the article is and then you have to go to your library and get the real document. look on left hand side for the timeline
Google notebook www.google.com/notebook
browser add-in that lets you save information from the Internet onto a virtual 3x5 card, highlight information on web site, click on the star it adds what you wanted to your Google notebook page. on your notebook page it has all the information you nee to cite the resource
on advanced search there is a choice under usage writes to specifically look for Creative Commons materials
common facts can be searched using plain English
Google will make basic mathematical calculations
3*5
1 light year in miles
1 cup in teaspoons
1 dollar in euros
define smoots
weather:
movie [zipcode]
Google Productivity Tools
could create a classroom set of email addresses on gaggle.net
Google Docs has Powerpoint now too
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