Searching

I knew about, but had never used, the advanced google search. On looking closer I really liked that I could limit the search results to articles in English and could even limit the country of origin.

I had no idea how to search for images. (I knew it must be possible, because I had known people to find images quickly, but I had no idea how it was done.) I was shocked by how easy it was. I searched for the Egyptian pyramids (about  one and a half million results) and then limited my search to images of both the pyramids and the sphinx (about one hundred and fifty thousand).

I love google alert and can definitely see its usefulness in keeping up with news events (such as Romney selecting a running mate) or more frivolous things like movie releases.

I liked the Google Bookmarks and can definitely see myself using it, but I was surprised it was a little harder  to access. After clicking on the link my first two tries were unsuccessful because those links were unavailable with my browser (Safari), and I didn't want to learn to access it through iGoogle because I know it is being abandoned soon. I was finally able to access it through the tab on my gmail account, but was surprised that instead of being able to search for the page and select it I had to actually input more information. This will still be a great tool, it will just be much more time consuming to set up then I had anticipated.