Category Archives: Google

Google Tip: Sites with Images

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Elizabeth Thomsen

Google has a handy filter that limits search results to sites with images, and displays a selection of the images for each site on the search results page. For many searches, I’m finding that turning this filter on makes it … Continue reading →

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Google Search Stories

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Elizabeth Thomsen

Last February, Google purchased their first SuperBowl ad, the story of a romance told entirely in Google searches, starting with “study abroad paris france” and ending with “how to assemble a crib.” This inspired all sorts of parody videos, and … Continue reading →

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Google Quotes

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Elizabeth Thomsen

Google’s Quotes is a very handy feature that’s part of Google News. Just go to to the Google News site and do a search for the name of a prominent person. Look for a Quotes link in the sidebar on … Continue reading →

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Google Adds Magazines to Google Book Search

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Elizabeth Thomsen

Today Google announced a new initiative to digitize backfiles of magazines and make them searchable through Google Books. They are featuring this on the main Google Books page with a rotating assortment of cover images, and you can limit a … Continue reading →

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Google’s Universal Search

Posted on May 28, 2007 by Elizabeth Thomsen

Google made an interesting change two weeks ago, ranking and integrating web links, books, images, music and more all in a single search results page. Images and videos are displayed with thumbnails. I especially like the way results from Google … Continue reading →

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