Power Searching with Google
The Power Searching with Google is a free online course offered by Google conducted by the Edx. Power Searching with Google makes it amazingly easy to find information. Learn about the powerful advanced tools that are on the Internet to help you become an advanced power searcher and find just the right information when the stakes are high.
About this course
What you'll learn
Duration: 03 weeks
Timings: 4 – 6 hours per week
Self Paced
For more details, please visit: https://www.edx.org/course/power-searching-with-google
- Get the most out of your search engine skills!
- While searching on the Internet is easy and fast, it’s not intuitive or straightforward.
- This course, Power Searching With Google, covers everything you need to know to become a power searcher, someone who can find information quickly, effectively and accurately.
- Your instructor, Daniel Russell, has been on the inside of the Google Search engineering team since 2005.
- His research on how people use online search tools to find what they seek gets translated into effective tips and tricks everyone should know.
What you'll learn
- How to create an effective query, , including how to choose the right keywords
- The inside story of how Google creates its index and serves up good results to your query
- How to use all of the advanced operators, , including how to read the inside of a URL to your advantage
- How to determine if a site is credible or not
- Ways to use image searches to find examples of things you need (in ways you haven’t heard about)
- How to use Google Scholar, the repository of peer-reviewed scholarly information
- How to use Google Books for more than extracting a quote from a famous author
Duration: 03 weeks
Timings: 4 – 6 hours per week
Self Paced
For more details, please visit: https://www.edx.org/course/power-searching-with-google
