Secret Google Tips for Researchers: Part 3
This series continues today with a look at the Results Screen, using Search History to find sites you’ve looked at before, and using Google Groups to find potential interview subjects.
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As a journalist not working for the Mother Corp., I feel like I’m stealing from free training here.
Seriously though, I’m finding these screen-casts very helpful. You’ve done a great job making them accessible to people of all googling skill levels.
One quick warning. If you aren’t signed up for “Personalized Search” (like I wasn’t) you don’t have access to the search history.
To sign up, I had to click on “My Account” and then find “Personalized Search” in the list on that page (or go directly to http://www.google.com/psearch in my browser) and sign in with my Google Account. (I had already signed in with my Google Account, but wasn’t getting the search history, because the “Personalized Search” service wasn’t active.)
[...Tod Maffin knows how to make Google sing. And he shares his tips for using Google on the Inside the CBC blog.
Tod is posting one video every day this week. ...]