I learned a lot of new things during Google 101. I will list all of the things I learned during the demonstration.
1. ~
2. related:
3. + or -
4. Using ends of websites like .gov or edu
5. The Google Art Project
6. Searching by a picture instead of words
7. Google translator
Learning all this changed my opinion because before I thought there wasn't a lot of ways to refine a search on Google. Now I know there are multiple ways to do this. It will help a lot when I using it for other projects because I do have some trouble with narrowing down results or finding what I want. I think I will use these tools for school work more than everyday life. In everyday life I usually just use Google to look up a quick stat, fact, or picture. When I am doing school work I can use the - or ~ to narrow results or expand them. I also can use .gov or .edu to help find specific things. Overall, I think Google 101 helped a lot and I look forward to using the new tricks.
Once you know the Google tricks, you will be amazed what you can find...especially once we start looking for government documents/statistics. Yow! :)
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