Today's article on Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (standard edition) begins with "Want to become an Google Expert? There is one organization that will show you how: Google."
Dick continues...Google used to conduct occasional live "webinars" that taught the finer points of using the search engine. In the past, you had to be seated at your computer at a designated time to participate in the live seminars. The company has now "canned" those lessons...
Read more: Online Courses: Power Searching with Google - Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter.
I use Google a lot for my genealogy and other searches, even have a book about using it. Probably you do too. These online courses intrigue me though since they're by Google. If you view them, let us know what you think. Send a comment to rootcellarsgs@gmail.com.
posted by Denise H. Richmond
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Tuesday's Tip: Google Shortcut Changes
Have you heard? Those wily programmers at Google have made a change that impacts our Google web searches. The + sign is no longer functional in a search string; it's been replaced. To search for an exact word or phrase now, use double quotation marks.
One of my current Google Alerts is:
Now, I need to change it to:
The minus sign still works though, as in "clinton county" ohio -jail. (I was getting too many jailed persons alerts!)
The tilde sign ~ also works like the + sign used to.
I would not have known about this change had I not been subscribed to and read about it in (Dick) Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsetter and Lisa Louise Cooke's The Genealogy Gems E-Newsletter of 26 Oct 2011. Other search tools are available at Google Support.
Tuesday's Tip is just one of the blogging themes suggested on GeneaBloggers. Get your ancestors noticed here -- select a blogging theme from the page tab above and send an image or short story to rootcellarsgs@gmail.com.
posted by Denise HIbsch Richmond
One of my current Google Alerts is:
"morrow county" +ohio
Now, I need to change it to:
"morrow county" "ohio"
The minus sign still works though, as in "clinton county" ohio -jail. (I was getting too many jailed persons alerts!)
The tilde sign ~ also works like the + sign used to.
I would not have known about this change had I not been subscribed to and read about it in (Dick) Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsetter and Lisa Louise Cooke's The Genealogy Gems E-Newsletter of 26 Oct 2011. Other search tools are available at Google Support.
Tuesday's Tip is just one of the blogging themes suggested on GeneaBloggers. Get your ancestors noticed here -- select a blogging theme from the page tab above and send an image or short story to rootcellarsgs@gmail.com.
posted by Denise HIbsch Richmond
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