Power Searching

           After finishing all 3 classes of the Google power searching course, I have learned some pretty interesting tricks and ways to filter my search and to get to the desired websites faster. In the 1st class, two interesting things that I have learned are that if you are looking for something that is a certain color, you can go to the box of colors on the results page and select the one that you are looking for. The second interesting thing that I have learned about in Class 1 is how when you come up with your results page full of images, you can hover over a certain image with you mouse, then click related images to come up with a page full of images close to that specific one.
            In the second class, I had learned  about how important it is to make sure there are not any useless words in your query. This can lead to unnecessary topics being searched and you being not as accurate as possible. In Class 2 we also learned about how the order of the words can make a big difference. For example, if you searched spider flower and had the order as flower spider, that is a completely different thing.
           In Class 3 we learned about these things called operators. These are pretty much just things that you put in your query that help you find what you are looking for faster and more precisely. The first type of operator that I found important was the :. In your query, you type what you are looking for then : and a type of website like.gov, .edu, .com, etc. Also, when you put that ending there the period is optional to add in. Your final search might look like this, Olympics site:.gov. The last thing that I found important and that would be useful to me and maybe even you is the quotes in your search. Putting quotes around your query makes it so those exact words in that order are searched. This might be useful if you are trying to find the name of a song but you only know the lyrics. Also, the OR operator is helpful because you put it between 2 different words in your query to make the search results page have both of those categories in it. ex, Snowboarding OR skiing.