Google Tools Update

Crandall Public LibraryStaff Training Day

May 13, 2010 Polly-Alida Farrington

Google 411

General Search Tips

Search Suggestions

Smart Results in Search Bar

Rich Snippets

reviews, people profiles, business listings, recipes and events.

Personalized Search with Stars

Real Time Results

Search Options sidebar

Content types & other limiters

Content Types

Search Limits

Results from Discussions

Sites with images

Page Previews

Timely Topic

Latest Results – real time stream

Last 24 Hours & Sorted by Date

Translated Search

Social Search

Results Nearby

Results Nearby – Custom Location

Related Searches

Wonder Wheel

Timeline

Images

Search Options - Images

Similar Images

Life Magazine Photos

Image Swirl (Google Labs)

image-swirl.googlelabs.com

Odds & Ends!

Google Book Store?

http://mashable.com/2009/10/15/google-book-store/

Fast facts & Feedback

translate.google.com

Google Search Stories

http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories

5 Awesome Ideas For Using Google Search Story Creator In The Classroom http://ow.ly/1Axo2

Subscriber Only Content

Music Search

Google Sets (Google Labs)

http://labs.google.com/sets/

Google Trends (Google Labs)

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

Visualize Trends

Twitter Search Results - Firefox Greasemonkey Addon

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43451

Google Cloudlet – FF addon

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9943

Lock Safe Search

Aardvark

Mobile Search!

Google Custom Search

Google Custom Search

KidRex

Data

Public Data google.com/publicdata/home

Public Data – embed code

Google Data Explorer

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

https://services.google.com/inquiry/scholar_email

Legal Opinions

Google News

Add a Section

Fast Flip View

Image View

Quotes

Search within Quotes Set

Easy limits by date

News Archives - Timeline

Really Old News!

More Google Tools

iGoogle

News Updates via RSS

Google Reader

An RSS Feed Reader

Sharing Items

Shared Items – Public Page

Create a Widget of Shared Items

Widget added to a blog

Connections

Calendar

Calendar

www.hawaii.edu/sciref/instruction/workshops.html

Registration Form

Google Docs

Feedback Form, Quiz, Survey

Feedback Form Results

Create New Form

Multiple Pages & Paths

Tons of Templates

Google Sites

Fast, flexible, free

School Library Site

Google Sites

http://sites.google.com/site/scrlctwitter/

Create a Site

Easy to Edit

Add Stuff!

Create a New Page

Add Gadgets – Insert Menu

More Gadgets

Announcements Page

Recent Posts –Insert Menu

Research Project Page

Blogger

mhms-media.blogspot.com/

Blogger

Template Designer

Picasa

Tags and more

Picasa - Collages

Finds Faces

Google Maps

Real Estate – 4 sale, rent, foreclosure

Traffic

Explore

Terrain

Augmented Reality

A new way to interact with surroundings

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dvdmerwe/4051151050/

Creating Custom Maps

Export to Google Earth

Explore Related Info - Google Earth

World Events

Photos and Background Info

Lake Chad - Then

Lake Chad - Now

Historic Map Overlays

Measure Distances

Explore the Oceans

And the Sky

And Mars

Google Groups

Building Maker

Google Sketchup

Questions?

Ideas?

Share!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluejake/286030741/

Thank you!

http://lib20.pbworks.com