Google is a Many-Splendored Thing!!
You, like me I am sure, visit Google several times a day, mostly to search the Web, perhaps to check your email. Google is much more than just the most popular search engine on the World Wide Web. In this post I am going to cover just a few of the many features offered by this great Web portal.
Do you know that Google has a second search engine called Google Scholar? If I go to the regular Google search engine and type "cognitive science" in the search box, in a fraction of a second the search engine returns 90,800,000 hits. They are from all over the Web: scholarly journals, college departments, books at Amazon.com on cognitive science, etc. What if I want to limit my search mostly to articles in acamedic journals? I go to Google Scholar and type "cognitive science" in the search box, and get only 1,050,000 hits. I have narrowed my search down to articles that would more useful to a student of cognitive science. This search engine even tells me how many times each of the links has been cited in other works.
But wait--that's not all there is to Google. To see a long list of the many free tools offered by Google, on the menu at the top of the Google home page, click "More," then click "Even More Products." Here you will find all these free tools:
Alerts
Blog Search (I use this one all the time.)
Book Search (I have used this.)
Catalogs
Checkout
Desktop
Directory (Similar to the Yahoo Directory)
Earth
Finance
Froogle (Shopping service- I have used it.)
Images (I use a lot.)
Local
Maps
News (I use)
Scholar (I have used many times.)
Specialized Searches
Code
Co-op
Labs (Features items that are in the beta testing phase)
Blogger (A great tool! It hosts this blog.)
Calendar
Gmail
Groups
Picassa (Free photo storage and sharing tool. I use it.)
SketchUp
Talk
Translate
Maps for mobile
SMS
Toolbar (I could not do without the Google toolbar!)
Video
Web Search
Web Search Features
Pack
Web Accelerator
I have not used most of these tools, but I will post blogs on them as I use them. Is it any wonder I use Google so many times every day???
Links:
Google.com
Google Scholar
More Google Products
Google Labs
Do you know that Google has a second search engine called Google Scholar? If I go to the regular Google search engine and type "cognitive science" in the search box, in a fraction of a second the search engine returns 90,800,000 hits. They are from all over the Web: scholarly journals, college departments, books at Amazon.com on cognitive science, etc. What if I want to limit my search mostly to articles in acamedic journals? I go to Google Scholar and type "cognitive science" in the search box, and get only 1,050,000 hits. I have narrowed my search down to articles that would more useful to a student of cognitive science. This search engine even tells me how many times each of the links has been cited in other works.
But wait--that's not all there is to Google. To see a long list of the many free tools offered by Google, on the menu at the top of the Google home page, click "More," then click "Even More Products." Here you will find all these free tools:
Alerts
Blog Search (I use this one all the time.)
Book Search (I have used this.)
Catalogs
Checkout
Desktop
Directory (Similar to the Yahoo Directory)
Earth
Finance
Froogle (Shopping service- I have used it.)
Images (I use a lot.)
Local
Maps
News (I use)
Scholar (I have used many times.)
Specialized Searches
Code
Co-op
Labs (Features items that are in the beta testing phase)
Blogger (A great tool! It hosts this blog.)
Calendar
Gmail
Groups
Picassa (Free photo storage and sharing tool. I use it.)
SketchUp
Talk
Translate
Maps for mobile
SMS
Toolbar (I could not do without the Google toolbar!)
Video
Web Search
Web Search Features
Pack
Web Accelerator
I have not used most of these tools, but I will post blogs on them as I use them. Is it any wonder I use Google so many times every day???
Links:
Google.com
Google Scholar
More Google Products
Google Labs
posted by Jimmy in the Hills | Monday, September 04, 2006
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