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Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed. It’s a familiar frustration for most of us: You type your precise, specific search terms into Google, and expect to find what you need on the first page. Instead, you’re faced with millions of search results, and the first few links are so off-the-wall unrelated you wonder if you mistyped something. But your search terms are correct, so why doesn’t Google know what you’re looking for? Though Google keeps improving their algorithms, there are still plenty of terms that stymie the search engine. Search operators - Search Help. You can use symbols or words in your search to make your search results more precise.

Google Search usually ignores punctuation that isn’t part of a search operator. Don’t put spaces between the symbol or word and your search term. A search for site:nytimes.com will work, but site: nytimes.com won’t. Refine image searches. Youpd. Google Maps: 10 Handy Tricks You Should Know. Master Your Browser's Tabs with These Tricks and Extensions. Nine smart ways to use tabs in Chrome. 181 Google Tricks That Will Save You Time. 100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School – Eternal Code. [via onlinecolleges.net]

Ten Search Tools and Tactics Teachers and Students Need to Know. I often find myself in conversations with teachers and students about Internet search strategies.

Often times the conversation reminds me that what's obvious to me is amazing to someone else. Last week I had that very experience as I taught a couple of teachers some search techniques that they are going to pass along to their students. As a follow-up to that experience, I've crafted the following list of search tools and tactics that every teacher and student should know. Google Docs. Why Google Docs?

Google Apps is a tremendous platform for facilitating online collaboration in your classroom, or beyond. It is freely available on the Web and if you are familiar with other word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation programs, you can easily use Google Docs. The chat feature on presentations makes it possible to create a "permeable classroom" by bringing experts into a lesson to interact with students online. Why Google Plus Hangouts is the Killer App: Docs. Google Plus got a bunch of new features today, many of them involving Hangouts, the video chat feature.

This is not the only social network with video chat in town, but Hangouts always had some stand-out features. First of all, they can be public, so anyone can see one in their stream and join in, which is a very honest interpretation of the word "social. " They also support two-way chat for up to 10 people, which can be chaotic, but often in a fun way.

Use Gmail, Docs, Google Calendar Offline With the Chrome App. Last week Google launched the Offline Google Mail Chrome App.

Best Chrome Extensions. On this page, you will find the best Chrome extensions for all your browsing needs.

Using the right Chrome extensions can completely transform your online experience, and make your time on the Internet much more productive and interesting. We’ve made the effort to categorize the extensions and chose only those we believe to be the best ones and which will most likely be useful to you. A perfect tool for students/researchers and one of the best Chrome extensions for organization. Diigo lets you highlight, share and save web pages. Google+ For Educators. 10 ways to use Google+ in the classroom.

Circles Obviously you are going to want to create a circle for your class and guide them through making a circle for the class as well.

But as cool as that is, it doesn’t stop there. Managing Google+ Circles : 7 Essential Tips. One of Google+’s main advantages is privacy management by way of organizing your friends into different circles.

While this makes perfect sense, this idea isn’t as intuitive as you might think because of the years of Facebook and Twitter habits ingrained in us. As it is a new concept, some people feel circles are cumbersome and tedious to manage – but it doesn’t need to be that way. Not at least, if you follow these essential tips: 1. 5 Years of YouTube Politics [INFOGRAPHIC] YouTube, which has quickly become the media site of record, has put together an infographic celebrating five years of political highs and lows.

If someone important does anything wonderful, stupid or wonderfully stupid on camera — it is likely the site has the video. This is typically true of the political arena, as politicians often make gaffes while they're on the road, whether it's during bill debates or a casual conversation. YouTube and other video hosting sites provide a place where the public can find and watch hours of clips featuring elected officials. More than 500 U.S. candidates for office have official channels. Of course, it's not all fail videos and mistakes, YouTube has also played an increasingly large role in elections and the day-to-day operations of the White House. 31 Essential Google+ Resources. How Google Dominates Us by James Gleick. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy Simon and Schuster, 424 pp., $26.00 I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 416 pp., $27.00 The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan University of California Press, 265 pp., $26.95.

Behind Google+'s Stealth March On Foursquare, Instagram, Gaming, Facebook, Your Life. Foursquare-challenging check-ins If you run the mobile app version of Google+ you can't help but spot the Check-ins feature--it's right there on the front page. It works with admirable simplicity: Push it, select the appropriate location which is spewed from Google Place's database, and tap "check in. " Similar check-in status is afforded when you enable a status update to have a location attached. Google's uProxy: A Peer-to-Peer Gateway to Internet Freedom. In parts of the world where repressive governments control the Internet with unassailable firewalls, netizens don't see the same web that people in other countries can.

Now, Google wants to give people in these countries a tool to circumvent those invisible barriers, and defeat censorship. Called uProxy, it is meant to be an easy-to-use, peer-to-peer gateway to the open Internet. With uProxy installed, somebody in Iran could use a friend's Internet to connect with him or her. Though Google announced uProxy on Monday at the Google Ideas Summit in New York, N.Y., the tool isn't ready to be made public yet, and the Internet giant isn't comfortable announcing a release date.

First, it wants to roll it out for a few "trusted testers" to improve it and make it more secure. The user in Iran, for instance, would be able to ask a friend in the United States via chat to activate uProxy. "It's basically a personalized VPN [Virtual Private Network]," Dixon told Mashable in an interview.