Hello and Happy New Year (albeit a little late) Here's a little piece of video to kick start 2009. For those you who enjoyed Pete's Wacky Office e-lesson from November, you can supplement it with this short report from the BBC about Google's campus about its response to the credit crunch and one or two … Continue reading Google in 2009 – video report
Going wild in Google with wildcards
The Boolean search symbol * is used in many database searches to represent any characters or set of characters. It can be used in Google searches to represent any word or set of words. You can use this feature for collocation searches. This is very similar to the Collocation Tester exercise (see chapter 2 of … Continue reading Going wild in Google with wildcards
Google trends – instant trends graphs
I was "flicking" through today's Guardian Unlimited website and saw this article about Google Trends. In brief, Google Trends allows you to enter a subject in much the same way you would with the Google search engine. However, instead of getting a list of websites, you are presented with a graph showing how often this … Continue reading Google trends – instant trends graphs