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Kakuy, para conectar a las personas que están realizando la misma búsqueda en Internet. Desde kakuylive.com nos presentan este proyecto que puede ayudar a buscar en Internet de forma más productiva. Se trata de una extensión para Chrome y Firefox que conecta a las personas que están realizando las mismas búsquedas en los diferentes motores existentes en la web (bing, google, yahoo, etc.). Cuando busquemos algo, Kakuy lo sabrá y verificará si hay alguna coincidencia entre los usuarios de la extensión. En caso afirmativo veremos el avatar de la coincidencia para que, al pulsarlo, se abra un canal de chat, permitiendo que se comparta la experiencia relacionada con la búsqueda.

Es posible también ver a las personas que buscaron la misma información en el pasado, accediendo así a perfiles que pueden ayudarnos con la experiencia que ya han obtenido hace varios días, cuando pasaron por el mismo “problema”. Nos comentan que tienen ya usuarios en España, China, Rusia, India, USA, Brasil y Argentina entre otros. Búsqueda por imágenes – Dentro de Google – Google. Search by Image (by Google) Inside Search.

Google is the most popular search engine on the web. Most of us rely on Google search for finding information. Sometimes it can be difficult to find just the right information we are actually looking for out of the hundreds or thousands of results returned in Google’s search. Despite using Google every day, we still use it in its simplest form. But Google has a plenty of tricks up its sleeves that can help us perform more quick, efficient and effective searches on Google. Towards this end, in July 2012 Google created an online course called Power Searching with Google. The Google Power Searching course is available online on edX as an Xseries program. Go to Power Searching with Google Course The course is structured as a series of 6 modules, each of which comprises of 5-6 short video lessons. The instructor of the course is Daniel M. Power Searching with GoogleAdvanced Power Searching with Google XSeries Program in Power Searching with Google.

Google Provides a Wealth of Search Education Resources Including Lesson Plans and More. Teacher who has been working for more than a few years has witnessed the tidal shift in how research is conducted. In the not-so-old days, students headed to the library for access to microfiche, newspapers and academic journals. As the Internet has entered the mainstream, however, teachers face a quandary as the volume of available information has exploded (and the potential for misinformation right along with it). There’s a commercial on TV now that jokes, “you can’t put it on the Internet if it isn’t true”. There really is a strong tendency for people to want to believe something when they read it online.

It is important that students be able to locate accurate sources, and do so without wading through hundreds of search responses responses inefficiently. Some educators have found it challenging to establish guidelines for online research. Fortunately, help is available today from numerous sources. (A Google a Day Challenge answers: Root beer, Dutch and Nepal.) About Paul Warren. Google Provides Search Education Resources Including Lesson Plans and More. Lesson Plans – Search Education – Google. Picking the right search terms Beginner Pick the best words to use in academic searching, whether students are beginning with a full question or a topic of just a few words. View lesson Advanced Explore "firm" and "soft" search terms, and practice using context terms to locate subject-specific collections of information on the web.

View lesson Understanding search results Learn about the different parts of the results page, and about how to evaluate individual results based on cues like web addresses and snippets. Engage additional search strategies, such as generalization and specialization. Narrowing a search to get the best results Apply filtering tools and basic "operators" to narrow search results. Compare results for basic searches with ones that use operators to discover the impact the right operator has at the right time. Searching for evidence for research tasks Evaluating credibility of sources Consider, tone, style, audience, and purpose to determine the credibility of a source. Online Research Techniques for Students. How to Use Google Search More Effectively. Among certain circles (my family, some of my coworkers, etc.) I'm known for my Googling skills.

I can find anything, anywhere, in no time flat. My Google-fu is a helpful skill, but not one that's shrouded in too much mystery — I've just mastered some very helpful search tricks and shortcuts and learned to quickly identify the best info in a list of results. Sadly, though web searches have become and integral part of the academic research landscape, the art of the Google search is an increasingly lost one. A recent study at Illinois Wesleyan University found that fewer than 25% of students could perform a "reasonably well-executed search.

" That search process also included determining when to rely on Google and when to utilize scholarly databases, but on a fundamental level, it appears that many people just don't understand how to best find the information they seek using Google. Thanks to the folks at HackCollege, a number of my "secrets" are out. Infographic via HackCollege. A Google a Day. A trivia game where using Google is allowed. Traditional trivia games have a rule that you can't cheat—you can't look things up in books, you can't ask your friends and you certainly can't ask Google. But what if there were a trivia game where you could not only ask Google, but were encouraged to do so? Imagine how difficult the questions would need to be with the power of the world's information at your fingertips. A Google a Day is a new daily puzzle that can be solved using your creativity and clever search skills on Google.

Questions will be posted every day on agoogleaday.com and printed on weekdays above the New York Times crossword puzzle. We’ll reveal each puzzle’s answer the next day in the Times and on agoogleaday.com, along with the search tips and features used to find it. Just like traditional crossword puzzles, the difficulty of the questions increases over the course of the week, so by Thursday or Friday, even the most seasoned searcher may be stumped. Here’s a sample question for you to try: A Google a Day.