Neat tricks with Google and other Web stuff

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Recently in my spring 2007 MCOM 241 (Media Writing) class at Winthrop University, everyone in the class, including yours truly, demonstrated some neat tricks with Google and other search engines. Here’s what we came up with

Google tips from Larry Timbs:

Let's say you are doing research on loggerhead sea turtles at Jekyll Island, Georgia, and you want to be kept up to date with the latest info. on the Web concerning your research topic.

Here's how Google can help you.

1. Go to Google.com
2. At the far right of the menu bar, click on "more.
3. Drop down menu takes you to the choice "even more"
4. Click on the first choice--"Alerts"
5. Fill out the required info., along with your e-mail address. But
CAREFUL! Do NOT enter a name like "George Bush." Doing so will get you hundreds or thousands or millions?? of e-mails sent to you daily. Be as specific and precise as you can.
6. Each time something breaks on or is posted on the Web about your research topic, you'll be alerted via e-mail.

Helps you keep current!

Also (from yours truly), these Google tips may be useful:

A.
1. Type in the following: print.google.com
2. Then look for a book icon that allows you to search inside a book.
Example: Robinson Crusoe
3. Takes you to pages of that book!

B.
Calculator:
Use the Google search box as a calculator. Example: 3+77= (hit return or enter and you get the answer.)

Likewise: 15*15= (hit return or enter and you get the answer which is 225.)

C.
Definitions:
If you type apple into Google, you get the computer company, not the fruit. But let's say you want the meaning of apple. Get definitions by typing: define: apple


D.

Phone Directory

Let's say you're looking for someone's phone number. For residential listings type, for example, type in:

rphonebook: Click, Rock Hill, SC (Gives you my boss’ (Dr. Bill Click's home phone number.)

Or, you have a phone number but not someone's name and/or address.

Just type in the phone number and hit return or enter. Gives you the person's full name and address.


Tip from Ashlee Darby
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:02pm

If you want to find a relative a friend (or you're just being nosy), the Most Wanted webpage is a great place to go. Actually if you are not a resident of Richland County you can access any police webpage from google. The page allows you to view mugshots of criminals, view a neigborhood list of sex offenders with their addresses. It also allows you to research police beats. The most wanted page provides listings by state and by specific county

1. Go to google.com

2. type in South Carolina's most wanted criminals and fugitives

3. click the link titled "South Carolina's most wanted criminals and fugitives"

4. under criminal records click "Most wanted criminals and fugitives"

5. proceed to click SC Most wanted on the list

6. Click your on your local police dept.

7. The following info will be the offender's picture, the offense, the address and a contact number for any info that you have.

:-D

...and that completes your google search



Danielle Ferguson
Date: Monday, March 26, 2007 4:43pm
Hey you guys, if you ever are wondering whether or not your classmates updated their blogs.........check out google blog and type in their blogspot address and get all the latest news from your classmates blog pages. Have fun and good luck on blogging


Kristyn Yeater
Date: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:03pm
If you wanna check out something via satellite, check into Google Maps. It’s on the google page right above the bar you type stuff in. Just type the location in that you want to see on the map (just a map or by satellite) and it will take you to it. You can zoom in and out to find specific roads or buildings...pretty neat!! miss your home sweet home? well go and look for in on google :)


James Lamberts
Date: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:13pm
1) go to yahoo.com
2) click on "Movies" on the left hand side panel on the front page
3) to find the nearest cinema fill in the zip code you reside in a search for cinema type box asking for your zip code (It should be on the top right hand side)



India Richardson
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:30am
Thanks to Ashlee darby, I am now hooked on Imeem.com! If you ever want to find a song or a video or a music artist, Imeem.com is the best place to find what you are looking for. I always go there to search for a song that I've heard only once on the radio or have
seen the video and just wants to hear it again. You can even save it in a playlist on your computer, but get an account with Imeem-a free one....Here's how u search:

1. go to www.imeem.com
2. In the top right corner of the window there is a search box
3. Type in the name of the song or the artist you are looking for and click the green button with the magnifying glass in it
4. what people have uploaded to imeem that relates to your search will pop up
5. Find the one your looking for and there you have it!

THANKS ASHLEE for introducing me to IMEEM!


josh gaines
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:34am
So go to google.com of course. Whatever music video/film/short film you are looking for, type in the title name and possibly the director or screenwriter. Once you have done that a list of videos will come up.
Click on the one you want and the video will start playing. to the right of your screen is a drop bar that says "Windows/Mac OS X".

Click the drop bar and then you will see "Sony PSP/ IPOD Video".

Click the "Sony PSP/ IPOD Video" highlighted area. then a centimeter below that will be"download" ... click download. once it's done downloading to your DESKTOP.

MAKE SURE IT'S TO THE DESKTOP OR A FOLDER YOU CAN EASILY FIND.

Move the file to iTunes and there ya go. Just plug in your iPod and
upload that video.


Brittney Barnes
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:58pm
1. go to google. com or yahoo. com (your choice of search engine)
2.type in poetry.com
3. hit the homepage link
4. on homepage of site, type in a last and first name of a person in given boxes
5. Names with written works of the person should appear
6. select and click on desired person(s) name(s)
7. view written work of author

Peter Landis
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:23am

You first go to the Google website or if you have a Google sidebar on your browser, use that.

Type in the name of the artist, album or both (to narrow your search).

Click the link at the top of the page that says "Images." Hit the "Search Images" button.

Hopefully (if you didn't misspell the band name or if it does exist on the web) a load of image sources popped up on your screen. If so, you can either browse the default images Google found, or you can filter through the images you don't want.

You can do this by moving the mouse to the upper left corner to the "All Image Sizes" scrollbar and selecting either "Small," "Medium" or "Large" to satisfy your craving.

What can you do with this image?

Place it in iTunes, save it to your computer and print it to replace an album insert lost years ago, or waste some time by putting it in Apple Works Painting or Microsoft Paint and stretching out the faces of the people on the cover.


Temeika Hines
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:38am
Hi You Guys!!

I did not have a google/yahoo tip. I went directly to youtube.com. There you can basically learn how to do anything. I call it the "how to" site.

Just type in youtube.com, and in the search box type in whatever it is that you are wanting to learn how to do.

Everything and I mean everything, seems to be on that website.

Check it out. There's a lot of funny stuff on there. My personal favorite, the dancing dora the explorer doll. lol..it's hilarious!


Emily Abraham
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:49am
http://www.familywatchdog.us/

You type in your address and it shows your house and how close it is to registered sex offenders. It even alerts you when one moves into your neighborhood.