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Unlocking Google’s Hidden Potential as a Research Tool (Part 5 of 5)
Seek and ye shall find. But not always.
According to an IDC (International Data Corporation) report from last year, knowledge workers spend 15-30% of their day searching for information. What’s worse, more than half of their online searches fail.
That doesn’t bode well for us, does it? Hopefully, this series has gone a long way to help you make the invisibly rich Internet more visible. We close this series by tapping into the wisdom and experience of two renowned Google experts Nancy Blachman and Tara Calishain who share some of their favorite tips, tools, insights, and search strategies for researching with Google.
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Yahoo! & Google’s overlaping results fewer than you’d think
There’s a brand new meta search engine on the block called Jux2. Its premise is to find the overlap between the top 10 results across two major search engines. So far I’m really impressed with it. It even has a toolbar for Mozilla FireFox. Jux2 conducted some tests to determine just how much overlap there […]
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Web content really IS critical!
Today I had the pleasure to hear web content guru Gerry McGovern speak at a full-day workshop in Wellington, New Zealand. He’s got to be one of the very best speakers I’ve ever heard! His course material, his sense of humor, his thought-provoking insights, and especially his Irish accent — had everyone in the audience […]
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Unlocking Google’s Hidden Potential as a Research Tool (Part 4 of 5)
This series is all about surprises and revelations at least when it comes to using Google. And here’s another: some of Google’s most valuable properties aren’t even search engines. Rather, they are resources or tools such as online research assistants, Web-based email, browser toolbars and social networks. These resources can be extremely valuable to marketers and should be considered one of the sharper tools in your research arsenal.
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Unlocking Google’s Hidden Potential as a Research Tool (Part 3 of 5)
Now that you are intimate with the range of Google operators to refine your research searches, it’s time to put the knowledge into practice in the real world. It’s also a good time to delve a little deeper into the essential features of the Google interface.
Here, in part three, we’ll apply the secrets of Google in a search for information about the food industry. Then, I’ll share the 20 essential features of the Google user interface the virtual place where you spend most of your time interacting with Google and apply those to our search example as well.
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Unlocking Google’s Hidden Potential as a Research Tool (Part 2 of 5)
If you’re like most of us, you use Google almost daily as a search tool. But Google is capable of so much more than simple search. You’d be surprised at what Google can do to make your work life more productive and easier on any number of levels. In the first installment of this article series, you learned several ways to refine your Google searches. Here, in Part 2, I will take you through 20 time-saving search operators. If you incorporate these shortcuts into a Google search session, you’ll both save time and minimize frustration.
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