Hello everyone! This is Anthony Montalbano here with internetRiot.com and today's site or I should say just a whole bunch of sites is Google. I am sure we all now by now know what Google is, we probably use it as a verb. I Google this, I Google that, I am going to Google.
Google is awesome and I want to show you some things I don't know if many of you are aware of that you can do with Google, some other ways you can search, some really unique searching techniques that Google offers. But most people are just stuck with looking at the page you see right in front me. Google, the search query box, Google Search, you type what you want and you get your results, real simple Google search.
But the cool thing is they have so many other ways of searching material out there that you may not be aware of. I am just kind of give you a quick run down. I actually have seven different ways besides the standard Google search that we see right here, seven different ways that we are going to search up on Google and find things even better than you will ever imagine online using some Google services.
So, jumping right in this, the first one I have for you is Google Maps. This is pretty popular, most people now know what Google Maps is, maps.google.com. You should see something like this here. Well, yeah you sit and search for distances from A to B plot and get directions to this place to that place or see different locations on the map, but what I would like to do is, you can simply just type in like an area code and food or area code gas.
I want some food and I am in Detroit, Michigan area, so I will just type in food 48201 Search Map. And that's all I really type. Now look at this map, all these different dots at different restaurants and where I am at, I could say, okay, these are the ones. I want to go here. You can click on any of these. You can this phone information right here. You can click on it like Cheli's Chilli Bar, I can click on this, go over the menu to see what I want, make the phone call.
So the next one I have for you is, Google Books and this books.google.com. Now I don't know how many are aware that Google has been archiving a lot of books and a lot of magazines. My favorite is using Google Books for their magazines, because they are literally indexing and archiving so many magazines as you can search. I mean, not only can see them, but you can search like paragraphs or sentences or whatever you are looking for in these magazines.
So for instance, if you just scroll down here you can see some of the magazines that we have. Here is Popular Mechanics. I can click on it and this is December 1989. So I can go Browse all issues over here in the top left that I just clicked down, and look at this. This is Popular Mechanics browsing all issues. There have index all the way back to 1900 of Popular Mechanics issues. I can actually not only read, I mean, look at this, I can click on one of these and you can actually read this. I mean, it is just awesome.
You can go back in time and read these magazines and it is even further than just reading magazines. You can search the magazines, something you could never do before. This is a great way to find new material if you are searching for things or you remember certain magazine way back when, you maybe will find it using Google Books.
So let's just for instance, I am going to go back Browse all issues and let's just say we are in 2000, so here are some of the newer Popular Mechanics magazines and I can just pull one of these up here and I can search for something. For instance, if I want to search, let's just see like DVD, really simple. I will search it and now it is giving me all the results for where it is found. I think this is really powerful really cool.
That's the second method, Google Books. The next one I have for you is Google Sets. Well this is, is you can give it a couple of different terms and it's going to try to predict what other terms would be in this set or wherever it has a grouping. So if you did like music, different musician groups you could do something like def leppard and maybe journey. You can see we are going with the hitter bands of the 80s here. I will do like styx and maybe that's all I can really think of right now. So I am just going to click on Large Set and look what it does, it is actually going to try to solve and find more for me.
So maybe you are looking for a long list of something and you can only think of two or three terms and you want to think of some other ones that goes in these terms. Well, here you go, this is labs.google.com/sets, type in two or three of them and you can actually get a whole bunch more predicted for you.
So that's a third different way you can search with Google besides the basic. The next one I have for you, this one is really neat, this one is called Google Squared. google.com/squared takes you to something like this. If we search something like hockey teams, I will Square it, it is going to pull up a bunch of hockey teams and now what it's going to do is, it going to try find not only the Names, the Image, maybe Description of it, Conference, Division, Founded and that kind of stuff. Another thing too is you can add more columns, so look at here are some other options that they give you. If I want to see for instance the captain of all these teams, you do Captain and there you go.
So, alright that's number four, number five. Google News Timeline, this actually searches things and list them in a chronological fashion more over than the best return results. So I can search things like Sports Scores if I just do like Detroit Tigers and I want to see the sport scores, so that's how get sports scores.
Now there is another thing that we can do here too that I like is, you can search blogs or actually it will pick up RSS feeds from different blogs that are out there, then it is actually indexed and you can add them to this news timeline and read the blogs in a chronological fashion. Here it is Blogs. So for instance Smashing Magazines are a great magazine or a magazine with a blog that I like to read a lot. So, I will just type in Smashing Magazine, Find Blog, here it is there. So I will click on that, you can see all the way up to the top.
So you can see Smashing Magazine is added and look at, it is actually listing each entry in a chronological fashion on a timeline. So I can go back and look at all the different entries, you can see some days there are two entries, but for the most part almost everyday looks like Smash Magazine is printing out least one blog post. You can also add other blogs as well, and there you go.
Now that's number five, I showed you five ways now, I have got two more for you. The next one we have is Google Similar Images, this is cool because you can search an image, and then what it does, it kind of uses what the image looks like based on colors and different settings of the image and tries to find similar images as it says. So for instance, if I am searching something like rome italy, I can look at these pictures here. This is really cool picture of Colosseum, I want to see more similar to this, and I don't like the other ones, I am kind of filters out those other ones out and this isn't exactly I was looking for, kind of looking for Colosseum.
So I am going to click Similar Images right underneath this, look at this. Literally, it's like the exact same damn picture over and over and over again, but you also have different dimensions. So if you are looking for maybe a larger image, then this is a great way of finding that as well. Here we go, here is one we can and try. View Full Image. There we go. So, there we go. I have got a great descent size image of the Colosseum. I was able to find multiple renditions, because it does similar image searching. That's that.
So that's another way of searching things on Google, and finally this is more obscure way. This is something that's kind of new, I don't know how far along its really coming. This is Google Audio Indexing. What they are actually is they are transcribing YouTube videos, so that you can search what people are saying in the videos. Now, for the most part the searching is going to allow you to search Politicians. So you don't have that many ways to search, but there are still a lot of things you can do with this.
I think this is really cool, because what I like to do is try to start a sentence and see how different politicians finish it. For instance, I love, just like, I love and see what's going on. For instance, I use my quotes and I will say I love and I will search videos. You can see here is a bunch of different things I can click on and then all you do over here, here is a video on the right, these are the different results inside the video where it's at, so you can click on this and hear it right where it is at. I will click on that (Video Playing), and there we go there is for he just said I Love. You can see those other search results and I can continue to go through the pages and look at the other YouTube videos that it's also transcribed and indexed.
You can also do stuff like, I believe and see what they believe, I hate, I want. I am just thinking of different sentences, if you want to finish the sentence. It's kind of different when you are searching what people are saying, you have to think a little bit differently. So what I do a lot of times is, I think of sentence and I want to see how a politician would finish it. So real simple is I love or I hate or I believe or I want or I need or we need. Those are just some things I can think of, but that's pretty cool. I would really like to see where Google is going with this, but I think there is a lot you can still do with this, and if you are definitely into politics or you want to see what politicians are saying, then I would definitely look at Google audio indexing and that's just labs.google.com/gaudi.
So, that's it. There you have it, there are seven new ways to use a Google to search your things on the Internet. You may not have already known, but I thought you should know. So take that, go Google more than you normally would and this is Anthony Montalbano with internetRoit.com and I will see you guys again soon.
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