Category5 Technology TV - Internet For Beginners: Finding What You Need with Google

Internet For Beginners: Finding What You Need with Google

S06E33
May 7, 2013

Robbie and Sasha demonstrate how to use Google as a powerful but easy-to-use tool in order to find local businesses, addresses, images and information.

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{play 13:36}Feature: Internet for Beginners - Part 2. Using Google to find local businesses, images, and more.
- Using the address bar to load Google.
- How to tell what words are links, which let you click your mouse to navigate a web page.
- Conducting a search for Patrick Stewart.
- Using Google to find pictures, and making sure you get the highest resolution version of a photo to make it useable for print.
- Using drag-and-drop operations to conduct a reverse image search on Google, allowing you to find the size of an image you need.
- Searching for an actor? Add "imdb" to your search to find the Internet Movie Database article about that actor, allowing you to find cross-references to other actors, as well as all the shows / movies they have been involved in.
- Finding a local company based solely on what they do ... "keywords".
- Once you know the company's name, you can search more specifically for the company itself to find their official web site.
- Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature will take you to the first result in Google. Generally, it's not used.
- Finding a company's location on a map using Google Maps.
- Finding a company on a map based solely on keywords, such as pizza.
- Using your mouse's scrollwheel to zoom in on your Google Map.
- Tapping into Google's Street View feature to actually see the area you are searching for, making it much easier to figure out where you're going when driving to a business.
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