 Hi, my name is Alan. I am the Learning and Instruction Librarian at the Bridge at Maine here on the fifth floor at the San Francisco Public Library. I'm going to go over with you guys today some simple tips about searching on Google and trying to use everything in the browser and getting all your answers there instead of clicking on a link. So let's go to the PowerPoint and let's do a quick overview of what we're going to go over today. Welcome to our Google search tips class. This is a class for everybody. And I'm going to share with you guys the agenda for today. So we're going to use a search bar and find some fun things and some examples. For example, we're going to go over using a calculator in the search bar. We're going to do some simple data conversions. We're going to do some currency conversions. We're going to do vacation distance hotel searches, figuring out time, sunrise and sunset. We're going to do some customer support lookups, definitions of etymologies, stocks, IP addresses, and plate status. So this is what we're going to do today. Feel free to pause, rewind, speed up or slow down if you want some more time. Okay. So let's go. Okay. I'm going to open a new tab here. Okay. So everything that we want to use within Google is usually here on top. So this is going to be the search bar in Google Chrome up here or you can use the actual search bar down here too. So these two things, let me try to annotate this so you can see what I'm trying to point out right now. Hold on one second. Let's do this. This is work. Okay. Let's draw on this. Okay. So this here, oops. Let's do a redo. So this here is the URL bar or the search bar in Google Chrome. This here also is the exact same thing. So these two things are equivalent to each other in Google Chrome, which is Google's web browser. This is the same thing as, so a web browser is something we use to search. So if you're using a PC, most likely you're going to be using Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer. If you're using a Mac computer, you might be using Safari. You can also download Google Chrome onto your computers and use Google Chrome where they're using a PC or a Mac or a cell phone. So we're going to try to do everything from today. We're going to do everything from here. Let's clear this. We're going to try to do everything from here, the search bar up here, so that you will have to do less clicks when you're searching for things. So the first one I said was trying to figure out using this as a calculator. So for example, if you're ever on your phone or on the computer and you'd forgot a simple math or hard math, the answers will always be here on top. So for example, you want to say what 56 times 43 is. So what's going to happen is that Google is going to automatically show you here with the blue circle and equal sign that this is already the answer without even having to click enter. So we know that 56 times 43 is 2048. So we could throw in another thing like we could try seven plus seven and you'll see here before you even click on enter, it'll automatically show you the answer here with this blue circle here. It's going to show that this is the answer 14. So besides using this as a regular calculator, we use this as a tip calculator. So you have to type in the word tip calculator first. And then what's going to happen is that it's going to show you this here on top. So this here on top is going to be what Google's providing for you to use without having to click on anything. So this here, this down here is actually a website. So if you want to use this kind of calculator, you would actually have to click on it and then it'll bring you to this other website. So I'm trying to help you minimize your clicks to make it a little bit faster and easier. So what we're going to do here, so after we use, after we searched in tip calculator, this is what popped up here. So we can use this up here. So from here, for example, if you want to figure out what, let's say you had a dinner for $100 and you wanted to tip them, let's say 18% and you want it to split between three people. And then I'll show you this and I'll figure it out all for you here. So show you that the tip per person is $6 and the total per person is going to be $39.34. So this is a good way for you to use this without having to click into anything. Another thing that we can use the Google search bar is for data conversions. So for example, let's go back up here. So this is where we do all our searches up here. Let's say today, let's pretend today is a sunny day, which it is. We'll say that oh, so we'll say like 64 degrees. And we could say Fahrenheit to Celsius because in America we use Fahrenheit. So if I click enter, it's going to show that actually hold on, oops, if I click on, I shouldn't have to, let's do this again. So let's go 64 degrees to Fahrenheit to Celsius. Oh, something I learned new today also. Okay, so if you just type in 64 degrees Fahrenheit without even having to click to Celsius, but automatically enter here with the blue circle like what we had at first with our calculated calculations, it'll say that 64 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to 17.78 degrees Celsius. So without even having to click. So let's try and do it the other way. Let's say you have friends and family who are traveling abroad and they're telling you that today it's 20 degrees Celsius and you're like, what is 20 degrees in America? And you'd be like, oh, 20 degrees is six to eight degrees Fahrenheit. So you know how hot or how warm it is over there. So this is a way for you to do this without having to click. You can also use it with clicking in, for example, we'll just say Celsius to Fahrenheit. So do you remember when we use the tip calculator just at first? The tip calculator, we can also click onto these. These are websites. You'll see that this has a URL. So this is the URL. But let's use this up here. This shows us, this is provided, Google puts it up here on top. So we just use directly from the search results. So if we say, let's say, like just that first 20 degrees Celsius, it's equal to six to eight degrees Fahrenheit. And you'll see here, this is the formula that they figured this out with. For example, you don't want to figure out the temperature. You can click on other things, speed, miles per hour to kilometers. You can also change it. It doesn't have to be that. Not if we have America's Cup of Care again in San Francisco, which probably won't be likely, but you can figure out how many miles per hour one not is. Or if you want to do, let's see. Let's do area. So one square foot is equal to 3.58 square miles. You could change it to all these different types of values here. So from any time you change what you want to convert, the drop down menu will also change for the values. So that's something to know. And you could use this for figuring that out without having to click on anything. Another thing I want to share with you guys is currency conversions. So for example, if you, so let's go back up here, here on top, let's say, so like I say, we use everything, we try to use everything here on top. You don't have to, but it's easier. So this one here on top, you can also click it, type it in here too. It's the same thing. But let's try it. Okay, let's say, let me clear my drawings first. Okay, so let's say you are deciding to travel post-pandemic. And you say you want to figure out how much 100 USD to euros is or 100 euros. Let's type in this first. No, let's go to Australia. So you would have to know the three value, three value names for the monetary value or monetary instrument. So USD, United States dollars, is equal to Australian dollars. So see that 100 USD is equal to 130, 130 dollars and 69 cents, 69 Australian dollars. And like I said before, this is where it's this blue, this is shows these two arrows mean is the conversion. And this is what they've done already for you without even having to click it. So it just changes to, let's say, if you want to go to Canada, let's say, CAD. I'll show you that 100 US dollars is equal to 125 Canadian dollars. This is that with how I'm going to click it. But if you want to, you could click it one in more. So if you press actually enter. So what's it's going to do is it's actually going to pop up with that familiar pop section here that Google provides for you without having to click on to any of these links and go into a different website. So from here, without having to type onto the URL bar or the search bar on top anymore, you could just click around here. Let's say 100 Bajon dollars and that is equal to 9, oh 96,512 Burundi francs. So we know that this is how much the money is worth. And if you wanted to figure out some other fun things, this shows you the values. So here I'm going to take this for you. So this here shows you this is the one month historical you do one year, five years, five days, one day or the max of how much data they have. So if we go from there, let's say, let's go back to the US dollars really quick and let's take a look at that US dollars and go to euros. So we'll see that here. We know that this information is current as of April 8, 554 p.m. UTC. I'm trying to trying to figure out what that is in part of what it's but it's the most current one. So here you'll see that within this one month this is the history of the US dollar. So you'll see that it went from 8.4 and what March 11 that dropped down a little then it went back up. So you'll see this if you click on five years, you'll see the data values of the conversion max. Let's see how far it goes back up goes back to 1998. And you'll see when when you are you established for more than euros. Now euros are worth more than dollars, but that's part of the fun. So another another thing I wanted to share with you since we're talking about figuring out different values of money is traveling. So for example, you know, if we are planning a post pandemic trip, let's say we want to go from San Francisco and we want to go to let's say we want to go to New York, San Francisco to New York, we'll type in San Francisco to New York. And what's going to happen is that here you will see and I take this really quick, you'll see this here on top. This is going to be the results from Google flights. And this will show you some some fun things with that. So let's click on that. And let's go into this. So I'm going to show flights. So when you click on show flights, let's do that again just in case we didn't catch that. So here. So this is where the results are from Google. If I click here, where's your show flights, it's going to open the Google flights window. Okay, so let's do that again. So I'm going to click here show flights. So this this is so this is going to bring you to a different page of Google. But this is the Google travel page. This is the Google page for travel. And hopefully I think I might do a class on this soon. I think we're all kind of itching to travel and this might be a helpful tool for people who are trying to plan vacations. So we are looking for a flight. So at first we type in San Francisco, New York, it's going to automatically pop up as flights first. Okay, so you see this is blue while these are gray. So this lets you know that you're on the flights tab or the flight page of this Google travel. So here, let's say San Francisco to New York. Let's say I don't want to fly out on the 22nd. And you click on that. So you click on the first day of when you want to go outbound. That's going to show you all the times that are available in the prices. Anytime you see a price in blue that I'm sorry a green. Anytime you see a place in green. So like this you see these prices here 211, 205 211, 217. This is not green. This is gray. But these green prices usually mean it's the lowest price of the month or that section of the time you're looking for. You will notice a pattern when you're looking at these. You'll see that usually Mondays and Fridays are usually gray and not cheap to fly out. Usually midweek like here Tuesday Wednesday Thursday or Saturdays is cheaper to fly because people want to already be at the destinations. So that may be a cost saving to you. But let's click on let's say for example I want to go to New York for Memorial Day weekend. So Memorial Day weekend is what the 31st of May this year. So let's say I want to fly out sometime in May. So I see May here. So let's say I want to fly out on Friday the 28th. And it's going to ask you the second date here. It's going to ask you when you want to come back. So let's say I want to come back a week later. So the 28th to the June 4th. So that'd be one week and I press done. So now it's going to recalculate and rerun those dates for me. So it's going to tell me here. And this will be your results for that. I'm not going to go into too many details about Google flights and travel because I we have other things I want to go over. But this will go into this is the flight May 28th. And I click on select flight. I see that this leaves at 2.20 from San Francisco. And this is going to land in New York. Sorry New York Liberty at 10.50 p.m. I could click select flight. And it's going to ask me when do I want to return to San Francisco returning flights. And then I would click one of these. There's more flights. But these are more expensive. And these have let's say layovers. And I don't want to do a layover. So I click one of these nonstop flights. I'll click this one here. And it's going to show me it's going to be 251. So going back to the front here also. Let's go back up here. Let's just go from the top. Okay. So let's say I want to figure out let's say let's say maybe let's do a road trip instead. I don't want to fly. I want to do a road trip. Okay. So let's go back to the top here. And let's use our URL search bar again. So I'm going to say once again let's type in San Francisco. Let's type in San Francisco New York. Press enter. So we all remember this on top. We just whatever that this is from Google flights. But now let's scroll a little bit down and let's look at this. So this will tell us how we need to get to New York if we are driving. So this little car means driving. This little bus means public transportation. If we decide to make a pilgrimage and walk to New York or if we decide to do a biking trip across America we click one of those. So let's click on them and see what happens. So a default to the car search driving it'll be 43 hours. If I click on the train. Let's say and it tells me that if I leave now I would go to from Montgomery Street it would take me what three days and 10 hours. If I click on walking it's going to tell me that it is. It's going to take me 958 hours and I click on biking. It's going to say 266 hours. Well you save a lot of time by biking versus walking. So we can also click. So if you want to go into each one I have to show you some more fun things. So go back to the car when the first one you click on directions. It's going to open you to Google Maps or bring you to Google Maps. So that will bring you to a different site with a different page which is Google Maps. And you'll see you can zoom in here and look at that. There is a split here. Let's see is that Lynn Lincoln. So I read Lincoln they'll split depending on what route the blue route here is taking I-80 east all the way to New York. That'll be 43 hours. So that's the first choice here. It'll be like this route has tools. I'll tell you also this is the fastest route and with the usual traffic I'll tell you this is 2,903 miles. But if I decide to take the second route which is I-80 east to the Interstate 70 east if I click on it here I'll bring this down to this route here. So like at first when we were at the first page it showed us it showed us the car. Oops I should not draw with blue because you can't see it against the blue background. Okay it showed us more that light purple that doesn't work either. Let's do a skill. So the blue sorry the car and then this is the public transportation walking biking and they have the option of flight here but flight at first when the first page was above it. So if I click on that let's say I want to take public transportation and it's going to show me a different way now. So if I leave Monday sorry it'll get me Monday. So this one is from what San Francisco, Forth and King take a limited train to oh no this is a bus sorry to no this is a train the cow train to San Jose Jordan Station and then the gray bound. You could there's many things that's going to be fun for this. So let's go back also let's look at hotels now. So going back here on top you just type in like New York hotels and it's gonna so anytime you see this here on top this is an ad let's make this a little thicker this is an ad this is an ad so they pay these people pay google for them to have their website pop up first so it grabs your attention but we want to look at something else so let's scroll a little bit down and this is what we want to look at here. So this is from this section here it's from google and without having to click on anything this will help you look for things so for example whenever we're talking about flying to New York so we set the 28th to the 4th Friday to Friday that's seven nights I'm going to click done and that will bring me to the google travels page again and this will let me click around here I'm going to save this for a different class though I feel like google travel has so much to offer I mean we're not going to cover all of that in this one hour. So going back to our search bar tips there's something I want to share with you that is to figure out the time in the world um so using this up here we are going to search for some fun time information so for example let's say um I want to call my friend in Paris but I don't know what time it is and I don't want to call them in the middle of the night so we'll say like San Francisco Paris time so it'll tell me that here on top that Paris friends is nine hours ahead of San Francisco so right now it is 11 0 8 a.m on Thursday and it is 8 0 8 p.m Thursday also in Paris friends and this is done without having to click on one of these links again so this helps you cough some time um and if you want to figure out another thing uh for important for us like figure out sunsets and sun time sunrises um for those who celebrate uh different festivals or holidays or religious events that depend on the sunrise or the sunset this is very this is very useful to know so let's say like let's just go and set um and this will pop up right here without having to click on inter right here so this is kind of like when we did it up here on top I think it's going to be the same right type right here too San Francisco sunset yep so you'll see here in this blue that this is the I guess this is the icon for the weather but this is telling you that today the sun was set at 7 39 p.m another thing I want to share with you like I said before was the customer service for example if you you want to figure out without having to go through a whole website let's say you want to figure out you want to call Macy's and you want to forget something on your bill right so instead of typing macy's.com and then you'd have to like scroll through here figure out on the bottom where I can contact them and like look through this whole website like you'd have to you'd have to go through here forget which one is the one I need to figure out and call let's say customer service contact us I have to do it click on all those things so and click on customer contact us and then they'll bring me here and then I think click on more things so let's try to simplify that so what we're going to do like I said before we use the search bar here on top and let's just do this let's get rid of my blue circle first clear drawings okay let's type in macy's customer support if I click on that the magic of google will let me know that the macy's customer service number is right here and I would just call that number and I will be done without having to close through their website um another thing I want to share with you is freaking out definitions we can type it in here the slander definition so without having to click on it again you'll see here on top in the with the blue bookmark slander definition slander the action of crime or making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation reputation and that's the answer for that's the definition of the answer that's the definition for slander without having to click it you can click it press enter and it'll also give you this here on top this is the information that google is pulling for you here on top without having to click on anything um another fun thing to look up is so you can look you can type it in here but let's use this bar up here let's say the etymology of slander so where did this word originate originate from if I click on that it's going to show me here on this top part that this is the this is going to be the origin and the etymology of the word slander and it's going to go through where this word came from so for example we'll see that now we're here in middle english slander and let's pull back from old french in english um and it did come from old french which then came from land um so we'll see this here and that's how we get that without having to click on any of these links down here um and that saves a little time for doing that okay um see another thing I want to share with you since we're going over the fun of languages um is figuring out using google translate also google translates a very fun tool that i like to use also here on top so you could type in the word slander and then you say what's slander in Spanish you type in slander in Spanish and it's going to show you here in this little blue icon um with these letters that this is what slander in Spanish is calumnia which I don't speak Spanish um but that's as close as I can get to pronouncing it but if you click on it actually I press enter it's going to bring you it's going to open you to this part up here so this is going to be the magical top part without having to click on anything um so if we click on here it's going to automatically detect this as english you can also tell it that you're typing in the different language you can tell you're going to type in Chinese you're going to tell it you're going to type in Swedish and then you get all then it will translate to whatever language you'd like it to um another another fun part of this that you can actually click on this and you can listen to what it sounds like calumnia um and that's how it sounds like in Spanish um another google translate itself is a very fun and useful tool um and if you click here I'm just let me annotate this so you can see where I'm going to click be a click here open in google translate this will show you some more fun things so let's click on that and that will give you a little more history and more information so if you like this is the definition of slander it can be used as a noun let's highlight this I can you can see what I'm pointing at it can be used as a noun it can be used as a verb um and then on this side on the Spanish side oops on the Spanish side let's go back up um you'll see that here it will translate this as a noun it will translate these as verbs uh the frequency so this here on the side will be tell you that how often these are shows up as a translation so for those that don't understand Spanish like me and you're trying to translate something I would strongly stress define Spanish translator but if you're in a pinch you can use this and you can say that oh this is what we'll use the most this one right here um and for a noun it'll be these two but that's so that's that another fun thing that we can use with our google search bar up here on top is figuring out stock prices without having to go into your banking institute um so let's say you want to figure out how much Apple stock is worth now so if you happen to know the ticker um APL so without having to click into anything it'll automatically give you the answer here um so APL on the Nasdaq as of 2 17 p.m eastern standard time it is worth 129 $29.99 right here um you want to figure out let's say you don't know let's ticker let's say you want to figure out how much um Ford stock is so if I just type in Ford stock on the first one it'll tell me that Ford stock which is just known as F on the New York stock exchange as of 216 p.m. it's worth 12 dollars and 50 cents a share so that's fun another thing another simple thing for when you guys are using this you could use this as timer or stopwatch um so this is good for your sitting at home working from home and you want to get right let's say let's say that's a timer for 50 minutes timer instead of time instead of timer and it'll automatically start counting down here as you can see here and then and for the sake of this training I'm going to change this to set a timer for 10 seconds leave and let's see how it sounds like in 10 seconds another thing is that you can also click on stopwatch but I'm not going to click on it until we hear the beeping noise of the timer and that's it a regular beeping noise like your trusty support watches so you guys use a stopwatch so this side here as you can see is the timer and this side here is a stopwatch so if I click on stopwatch here and I click on start it's going to start running it and then I can also click stop and this will be a more stopwatch another thing I want to share is figuring out some upcoming holidays so for example let's say I want to forget when Mother's Day is this year Mother's Day sometime in May but what is it in May let's say Mother's Day 2021 Enter and it's going to tell me here that Mother's Day is May 9th but let's try that again without having to enter let's see if it's going to give me the answer Mother's Day no it's not so this is different so this doesn't give you that blue answer in the search bar this time we have to click on the enter button so Mother's Day 2022 let's change it to next year now right click enter and this will give me that Mother's Day here in May 2022 is May 8th without having to click on these websites sometimes it is kind of easier to click on the website so if you want to forget one every single Mother's Day is for the next five years without having to type it in each time up here again and certainly like Mother's Day 2023 you would just click on one of these websites and I'll tell you Mother's Day within the next what 2019 to 2031 so this will give you the next 10 plus years of Mother's Days another thing is if we know if we know you need to go back to travel if we know you need to figure out when somebody's coming and you know their flight information you can always just type it in here on top so like we were using the search bar here on top let's say they're flying Delta so we know Delta let's say Delta 10 12 so this is example I used before I'm gonna click on that this will pull up here on top the answer so I'll see that today so this is Delta 10 12 from Atlanta to San Diego today Thursday April 8th it's flying from Atlanta to San Diego and we know that here it's all it's it departed at 459 and it is scheduled to arrive at 658 today this is useful for if you want to figure it out when your friend is coming or you need to go pick up somebody without having to click on one of these websites so you know another way also is always just to go to the actual website of the aircare so you click on Delta or type in delta.com and then when you get to Delta you would then oh it's still spinning why is it taking so long okay you would then click on up here let me try to annotate this so you can see what I'm talking about this you would click here on top flight status and then the flight status will be okay today today the flight's leaving today or left today and the flight number I know it's 10 12 I'm gonna click on search and that's going to show me this information right here so this kind of required what is that two clicks three clicks while if I just did up here it required one click so one more simple thing for you to know about using Google the search bar it makes it makes things a little bit easier when you're trying to search for things and find things without having to go through open sites but yeah I think I'm gonna teach class on Google travel because I think there's a lot to explore for all of us there but once again so this is our Google search class Google search tips class and then that's the class for today thanks for joining have a good day