Find Everything Google Has to Offer on “Google New”
Find Everything Google Has to Offer on “Google New”
If you are interesting in learning more about all of the products Google offers, you need to check out Google New. On this site, you can watch videos about all of their latest products.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql7jGchLAWE&fs=1&hl=en_US]What is Google zeitgeist? Searching for Trends and Popularity on the Internet
Google’s site defines zeitgeist “as, “zeit·geist | Pronunciation: ‘tsIt-“gIst, ‘zIt | Function: noun | Etymology: German, from Zeit (time) + Geist (spirit) | Date: 1884 | Meaning: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era. “Zeitgeist” means “the spirit of the times”, and Google reveals this spirit through the aggregation of millions of search queries we receive every day. We have several tools that give insight into global, regional, past and present search trends. These tools are available for you to play with, explore, and learn from. Use them for everything from business research to trivia answers.”
If you click here, you can reach the Google zeitgeist site. Once there, you have access to the following search site links:
Website Trends
I tend to set up the Google news search function in iGoogle to find out about buzz words and things I am interested in at the time. However, these sites can help you find out even more about what people really are searching for on the Internet. I like the “insight for searches” because you can create lists of specific words to find out popularity of topics in different regions. Hot trends can also be helpful to give you an idea of what is popular throughout the day.
Google Search Tips: Using Google’s Lesser Known Functions for Research
With the popularity of Google, odds are you have probably tried using their search engine a time or two. However, many people are unaware of how to refine their searches using Google’s lesser-known functions.
- To find information about a specific website, try inputting something like: “info:drdianehamilton.com” – be sure you type in the parentheses.
- Utilize the asterisk function. For example: “Facebook * millennials” will give you results with only those words. If you just searched by “Facebook” and “millennials” you may have words between the two in your results.
- Google does not recognize short words such as the, a, and, it . . . Nor is it case sensitive. However it does differentiate between singular and plural as i the case of “millennial” or “millennials”.
If you are interested in some other search-related tools offered by Google check out the following sites:
- blogsearch.google.com – search for blogs
- news.google.com – recent news items
- groups.google.com – newsgroup search
- books.google.com – content of books shows up highlighted
- directory.google.com – yellow pages of websites
- scholar.google.com – scholarly publication search
Are You Using Wooeb’s Interactive Search Engine Platform?
If you haven’t heard of Wooeb.com yet, you need to check out their site. Wooeb is an interactive search engine platform. Rather than having to wait for search engines to pick up your information, they put it all together in one place.
They did a nice job with with creating ads and banners. This is an example of an ad they can create for you on their site. You can also click on it to find out more about my book: How to Reinvent Your Career.
They also offer press releases that you can incorporate on your wooeb site. To see my site, go to: http://wooeb.com/drdianehamilton
Check out an article about the Top 5 Reasons Wooeb Boosts Your Online Presence by clicking here. In that article they list the following benefits of using Wooeb:
1. Everything is in one place
2. You own your URL
3. It is accessible to everyone
4. Wooeb indexes search engines
5. Messages boards are included to discuss topics with others
What is Web Scraping?
A scraper site is a spam website that copies all of its content from other websites using web scraping. The purpose of creating such a site can be to collect advertising revenue or to manipulate search engine rankings by linking to other sites to improve their search engine ranking.
There are now some sites that are working on finding out even more information about you through scraping.
Scraping for Your Real Name
PeekYou.com has applied for a patent for a way to, among other things, match people’s real names to pseudonyms they use on blogs, Twitter and online forums.
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, they wrote about how scrapers broke into sites like PatientsLikeMe to find out information about patients to sell data about consumers to drug makers. To read this very interesting article, click here.
It is disturbing to think that people are in medial chatrooms pretending to be patients in order to find out what drugs are being prescribed. That kind woman you are chatting with about your hot flashes just may be a guy keeping track of your medical history. For information on how to remove some of your personal details from the Internet, check out wsj.com/wtk.