PowerSearching with Google

[Muskan Arora]

Become a Google Power Searcher

Deadline: September 24, 2012                                                               
Open to: Anyone who wants to learn more about Google’s advanced search tools

Register here and earn Certificate of Completion.

 

You may already be familiar with some shortcuts for Google Search, like using the search box as a calculator or finding local movie showtimes by typing [movies] and your zip code. But there are many more tips, tricks and tactics you can use to find exactly what you’re looking for, when you most need it.

 

The registration for Power Searching with Google, a free, online, community-based course showcasing these techniques and how you can use them to solve everyday problems is now open. Power Searching with Google aims to enlighten people in the ways of Google wizardry. The course empowers you to find what you need faster, no matter how you currently use search. For example, did you know that you can search for and read pages written in languages you’ve never even studied? Identify the location of a picture your friend took during his vacation a few months ago? How about finally identifying that green-covered book about gardening that you’ve been trying to track down for years? You can learn all this and more over six 50-minute classes.

 

Lessons will be released daily starting on September 24, 2012 and you can take them according to your own schedule during a two-week window, alongside a worldwide community. The lessons include a series of activities to hone your search ninja skills, a post-course assessment to gauge your progress and many opportunities to connect with others using Google tools such as Google Groups, Moderator and Google+, including Hangouts on Air, where world-renowned search experts will answer your questions on how search works. Googlers will also be on hand during the course period to help and answer your questions in case you get stuck.

 

By the end of this course, you'll know several new techniques that will make you a Google Power Searcher and help you find out information about whatever you can imagine—from how to prepare for a new family pet to where moss grows on Stonehenge or how to grow katniss in your garden. Sign up now! Show off your Power Searcher Certificate! which you would receive on completion of your course.

 

What will you search for after you master the secrets of Google Fu?

 

What are you waiting for—get Googling!

 

Schedule

• Pre-class assessment available 2012-09-24

• Class 1 - Introduction available 2012-09-24

• Class 2 - Interpreting results available 2012-09-26

• Hangout 1 with search experts: Thursday, September 27

• Class 3 - Advanced techniques available 2012-09-28

• Mid-class assessment available 2012-09-28, deadline 2012-10-10

• Class 4 - Find facts faster available 2012-10-01

• Class 5 - Checking your facts available 2012-10-03

• Hangout 3 with search experts: Thursday, October 4

• Class 6 - Putting it all together available 2012-10-05

• Post-class assessment available 2012-10-05, deadline 2012-10-10

Visit the Official Website

If you need a room to watch the lectures together with everyone, please fill out this form. 

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For more information feel free to contact:

 

Muskan Arora

Google  Student Ambassador

Email: muskana...@gmail.com
Ph:             +919999875476