Tag Archives: Google
Power Searching with Google
Google is hosting a new MOOC — Massive Open Online Course Power Searching with Google is a free online course featuring powerful techniques to solve real, everyday problems using Google. Visit the course homepage to learn more. By the end of
FindThatFile: Media Search Engine
Continuing my posts about search engines, there is a new site called FindThatFile. FindThatFile is a media file search engine. It locates media for you (documents, audio, video, etc). It has two flavors: edu.findthatfile.com specifically searching for library, education, and
Short & Sweet Google Tool
Maybe I’m the last person to know about this, but my friend just told me about the Google url shortener. It works like other shorteners, you just paste in the URL you want shortened so it can easily be shared,
Google’s Think Insights on Word of Mouth Advertising
Google’s Think Insights recently published their study “Word of Mouth Advertising and the Internet”. Based on the fact that there are 2.4 billion conversations per day that involve a brand name totally 3.3 billion mentions of brands, Google did a
The Mobile Movement from Google Think Insights
Google’s Think Insights has a great video out about understanding smartphone user behavior. Did you know that 39% of us use our smartphone while in the bathroom? Does this mean smartphones are the new magazines? Also, about 1 out of
More Ways to Google for Market Research
Last week in the Tracking Down Free Market Research post, Laura revealed one of our secrets to finding expensive market research reports using Google. Here’s another trick to use when you aren’t lucky enough to find the entire research report.
Casual Friday: Google Chrome Ads
Everyone get your Kleenex ready, Google just launched it’s Chrome TV ad campaign – their biggest offline campaign ever – and the first two ads are real tearjerkers. There is a tactical reason for all that emotion. As explained in
Common Craft Explanations Made Fun
At the Texas Library Association last week I had the pleasure of meeting Lee and Sachi LeFever from Common Craft. Those names might not sound familiar, but I just bet that you have seen their work. Those short explanatory videos
Casual Friday: A Google a Day!
A Google a Day is the new game from Google. It’s trivia with a search twist. You aren’t expected to know the answer, you have to Google for the answer. The cool thing is that the answer can’t be found
Google’s +1 is active–Do you “like” it?
Google just launched their new +1 service which allows you to “publicly give something your stamp of approval”. Or in Facebook terms, “like” it. Right now it’s still part of Google Labs and you have to opt-in to try it
