Google 101

      I learned a lot about Google in our class last week, I did not know that there were many searching tips that worked on Google, I thought those type of things were just in Academic Search Premier and scholarly search engines. In the past when I have used Google, I just would type in my search string with no extra characters or search tips because I did not know it would help, I would just reword my search if it did not work or use quotations around certain words that I wanted to come up together in the search. In class I learned many different ways to search on Google, such as, using this symbol , ~ = related terms when you use it in your search string before a word, that using the plus symbol is similar to using the work AND in Academic Search Premier and using .gov country, it allows you to find a government website. I also learned that you can google information from certain countries instead of general Google, which I thought was very interesting! I learned about the tools of Google on the side of the web page, like related searches not yet visited sites, etc. I thought that being able to search with images was cool and seems very useful to me. Since learning all of these things about Google I think of it very differently for using it as a source for research because it will make my research a lot easier to find a specific subject and now that I learned about Google Scholar, the sources I find will not just be websites or articles from them, they can be databases and academic works, which I find very impacting for my research.