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A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Answer - Looking up land

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Unfortunately, not everything is on the web, and an important part of research skill is knowing how to navigate over information that's ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (June 2, 1020) - Looking up information about land

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I live in Palo Alto, the home of Stanford, the previous home of Google, and the heart of Silicon Valley.  Yes, some might think SiValley is ...
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Friday, May 28, 2010

Answer: Larry's first patent

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Sorry about the delay in answering..  As I was writing up the answer, I noticed a bug and needed to let some folks know about it.   But ba...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (May 26, 2010) - Larry's first patent

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Sometimes you think a problem is going to be dead easy, and it turns out to be more complicated than you'd expect.   For instance, he...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Search for ideas from long ago

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Over the past weekend I was doing an obvious search, and not having ANY luck whatsoever.  What was going ON?   In my case, I was just try...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

Tips 3 and 4 towards better searching

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It's been a busy week.  This week I ended up presenting at two elementary school assemblies--the first to 700 kids about Doodle 4 Google...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Tips 1 and 2 towards better searching... (Control-F and Toolbar highlighting)

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Google is pretty easy to use, no doubt.  When you want to find out something about the purple bird that you saw at Lotus Pond in Hyderabad, ...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Answer: Searching for something someone once said

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Well... as you can see from the comments, there are actually at least three different articles that quote me in the NY Times. (Nice job, Dav...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (May 12, 2010) - Searching for something someone once said

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A few weeks ago we talked about the difficulty of tracking down original quotations.  (Remember the post about Mark Twain?)   Now, this t...
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Friday, May 7, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge / Answer (on Friday, May 7, 2010): Finding similar images

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It's been a fascinating week.  I'm in Hyderabad, India to teach classes at Google on "How to Search."  I know that sounds ...
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