 Hello, good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am Krista Burns at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event where we cover commission activities and anything of interest to Nebraska librarians. We have guest speakers that come in and sometimes we have our own NLC staff as we have today. We do these sessions every Wednesday morning, 10 a.m., central time, live, and they are recorded. So if you are unable to attend a live session you always have the recording available to you. This morning we have, as I said, one of our staff, Michael Sowers, our technology innovation librarian who is going to share some Google secrets with us. That's the plan. That's the plan. Okay. I'm going to pass it on. All right. I'm going to take it away. This is why I love the Internet. I can go to something like Flickr and I need a title slide and I can just put in the word secrets and get images like this free for me to use. And you know, I just, you know, colorful and, you know, just like the Google logo. I threatened Krista yesterday that I was going to start singing Bohemian Rhapsody. And if any of you get that reference, it's a Muppets thing. Just go online and find it. Anyways, I will spare you my singing. I call this Google secrets only mainly because it's a lot better of a title than stuff about Google you may not already know about and some of you maybe do. Because there's a lot been going on with Google. There's a lot of things, excuse me, a little frog in my throat, not Kermit. And a lot of things going on with Google, a lot of things that they're kind of features that they're hiding. Services that they offer that maybe a lot of people don't know about. Also the reason I kind of came up with this topic just like last Friday when Krista said can you do anything next week is that several weeks ago I got one of these new wonderful droid smartphones from Verizon and it is very Google centric. In fact while you're standing there in the store you have to sign into your phone with your Google account. So oh yeah, so my wife had to just sign up for Google account right then and there and so I've been teaching her all sorts of stuff with Google and I've started using a lot more Google services in the last three weeks than I had in the past. So what I wanted to do is just kind of go through some of the things that are out there that I can show you and we've got this web page right now, the bookmarks are all in my account. Eventually we'll get them over to the NLC account but if you want links to all of the resources I'm going to talk about here today you can copy down that URL delicious.com slash travel and librarians slash Google secrets and so much so that I even added a bookmark you can see at the top there dated this morning because something happened literally about 45 minutes ago with Google that I found out about and we'll kind of come back to that. These aren't any in any particular order so I'm just kind of going to go through these it looks like I've got about 21 of them there and I'm actually going to change this up so we can see all of them so I don't forget anything in particular. So let me start out with kind of maybe some things that people are a little more familiar with and then we'll kind of move along towards the maybe not so familiar with and then end up with just some resources and pointers to where you can find even more stuff that I've stumbled over in researching all of this so I'm going to switch on over to Google the one thing I want to say here is I am signed into my Google account some of the services I'm going to show you you have to sign up for also some of the kind of memory features that Google has to remember things you've done are if you are signed in so some of these features may not be available directly to your patrons unless they have accounts they may not be available to you at least one thing I'm going to show you still need to be invited by somebody who already has an account so but I think it's a really cool service that we'll start playing around with so I am signed into my account under my Gmail address that you can see up there and the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to assume most everybody's familiar with the Google homepage and you have your Google search here I'm feeling lucky but what a lot of people don't realize is there's this wonderful little thing over link over here they're right called advanced search and there are a lot of things that Google starting to do around search results options and how did you search that that people just aren't necessarily familiar with now some of these right off the top are kind of your obvious if you've done any sort of searching in any sort of online database familiar with you know all the words phrase you boolean operators in here how many results per page what language format types things like that but if we scroll down here they've kind of shrunk this under dates usage rights and numeric range and more you start getting even more options available to such as dates usage rights which will come back to in a moment numeric range I like their example there is each 1500 to 3000 dollars so if you are searching for a product you can narrow it down if you're you want your results to contain a number between X and Y you can actually do that safe search on or off it is pretty much on by default I'm actually since I am searching in public in for the next 45 minutes I'm going to turn my safe search on just in case we get maybe some pictures I really shouldn't be showing anybody one thing I will point out here real quick is this usage rights and by default this is not filtered by license some of you may have heard me talk about creative comments before this is basically allowing you to limit your search results to materials that have creative commons license on them that you can use for free so if you're doing a Google image search if you're looking for content you want to reuse for something you know you can limit your results to free to user share and get those images back out just like you can with flicker and know that you're okay reusing that content I don't want to turn this into a whole copyright rant which I could easily do but just going to point that out to you it is kind of hiding in here and something that you might want to take a look at the other interesting part under advanced search here is page specific tools find pages similar to and find pages that link to I find these really interesting from two different perspectives I'll take them in reverse order here find pages that link to the page and what I'm going to do here is I'll put in the URL for the commission's website and click that search and what this is going to do is now these are all pages that have linked back to our website now as you will notice right off the top a lot of them are our own website but then you'll notice here we have links back from one book one Nebraska traveling librarian which is my website link back from information today Nebraska libraries.org so you can look at this to say your website who's linking to it or you found a website that you're going I wonder if this information is accurate well see if anybody links to it you know kind of link back you can be used as a verification as to a source because generally people don't link to things that aren't any good you know it's kind of a it's it's a simple but very important concept the other one is fine pages similar to the page and again I'll use our website as an example here and so I found this great resource and I'm wondering if there's any other resources online that are similar to that one now in this case we're kind of a state library so you'll see here Nebraska access Nebraska library association and I'll see reference on Twitter but then it does start to brought out to UNL libraries Nebraska public libraries Lincoln cities Omaha even NET television and then we start jumping out here we've got the Mississippi Library Commission so you can find one resource and then research and see what other sort of related resources are there available based on the URL and this doesn't have to be a home page this could be a very specific document you know you found a report on something I'm looking for other things that are similar to that report you can go in you can do that so that's just kind of the advanced search don't want to spend a lot of time there just highlight a couple of those very specific features that are available to you let's go ahead and take a look at kind of some of their more specific searches that they have available and one here is Google images now this is the one I just found out literally this morning that in the next 24 hours they're gonna be changing how image results are displayed okay it's like gee thanks all right so yeah they knew I was gonna present on this this morning so they're gonna change it so chances are I'm gonna show you what will be the old way come tomorrow morning and then we'll go from there I have a screenshot of what it's supposed to look like in in the future so I asked Krista earlier I said I'm gonna need an image search and she suggested snow now it's like 35 degrees here this must be why why she wants to search for snow so we're gonna go ahead and notice it is providing me with suggestions I'm just gonna do a simple search on snow here and this is our results list now they've done several very interesting things here that a lot of people haven't noticed the first one which is very obvious is if you look under each of these results there is a link called find similar images yes this this is very cool so for example here we have you know some trees with some snow we kind of have this one we have snow leopard here and so here we've got one I'll go up to the upper right here we have this snow with kind of this barn we've got some sky going on here I'm thinking hey that's pretty cool it's close but it's not exactly what I'm looking for so I want to find similar images to this one I click on that link and look at what we've got this I am just I'm floored by this I mean it looks a color it looks at shapes and it looks the lines in the image but as you can see here I mean we have different dimensions of the same image from completely different sources this happens to be a piece of wallpaper so it kind of does that but as we get far we've got this one's very similar but then somebody's gone and added kind of a lake in front of it their reflection we've got the mountains you don't notice in most cases we have the sky we have some sort of pointy shape we have ground we have land you know we have trees we have sky I think this is really cool Kristen did you have a comment? No I was saying there's one in the middle of the second row it's another barn in snow so similar to the first one but only that's the kind of barn I was looking for yeah exactly I mean this is I I I've not had a lot of chance to play with this but I think it's it's really really cool so I'm gonna go back to my original results and the other thing that kind of carries through in a lot of these and it's not just an images it's also in the regular Google search it's also in Google video search some other things is right here we have this link kind of towards the upper cult show options these are hidden by default until you turn them on once you turn them on and you're if you're logged into your account it will remember that you turn them on and what we can get here for the images is we get this additional list down the left-hand side and I love this I've been using this a lot especially for for example I want medium or large images you know I'm looking for wallpaper chances are that's gonna be large now I don't necessarily agree with their definition of large their definition of large is like anything over a thousand pixels wide or something like this and sometimes you want a picture that's 12,000 pixels wide something like that you can say I only want icons of snow okay well here we go now I've just limited to my results to icons now notice you have lost at least in the case of icons the related images in this case because you have narrowed your results you can say I need something exactly 564 by 64 pixels okay well here we go here are snow results in 64 by 64 and again I can turn this off by just going back to images any type do you want to face photo clip art or line drawing okay well you know I'm looking for a line drawing okay well here you go and it turns out in this case most of it seems to be kind of clip art versus clip art which is gonna get this sort of thing or I'm not sure about face with snow well okay here we go so Britney snow Tony snow exactly snow pictures with faces in it I mean I I just look at this like I am so impressed by the computational power behind this that makes this actually work and then and I'll go back to any type here then you can go well you know what I'm I'm not sure I want to do a yellow colored snow picture I probably not let's avoid that little let's go with okay I want snow pictures but like with black in it I'm not sure this is the great okay black and white images black snow I guess is the name of either a movie or an album it looks like here you know if I go to red let's see I get autumn and winter you know so you can again narrow your results by color and and I just this right here is just completely opened up so I want color and I want face and I only want icon images okay well there you go I mean you can just totally totally narrow it down a couple of clicks without too much trouble and again then we just have down here you'll see there's across the top kind of images red face icon I also have down here in the bottom left reset options that'll take me back to my original results so yeah it is pretty nice what I really like is like a full color wheel well I'll actually take that back specific color oh no there isn't a color wheel yet so you know where I really want this shade of green yeah but you know hey they're working on it okay so let me go back to my list which is gonna take me a second because I didn't open a new tab here we go I'll open new tabs from now on all right let's now keeping with images this is something that's kind of in what they call their experimental view and this is called the Google image swirl and what this will do is this is from Google labs which which I'll have a link to a little later and so let's try that snow I go actually and their query above okay couple weeks ago this was only available on the the examples they had on the screen so we're gonna try our own search here we'll stick with snow and it looks like yay it's gonna work now what this is done is this has given you the results but notice behind each one there's kind of some other results kind of hiding in here they've kind of grouped to these images by similar images time and so I'm gonna pick this one with with a car covered it's nothing you know I understand how that works and what we've kind of done now if anybody's in the audience is seeing like aqua browser or some of the other visual oriented search engines what it's trying to do is is try to draw comparisons visually between these different images so we can see here well this one is kind of pretty similar to this one that and then that one's gonna be kind of similar to this one what rearranges that and then finally you know we've gotten to this guy here standing in the snow going wow it's really deep here okay and you can see this kind of move around I don't know how it the moving on our screen is very very smooth I don't know how well it's translating across across to you guys but yeah this is called Google image swirl so if you're a little more of a visual searcher you want a relationship between the photos you can you can kind of look at it that way now to to end talking about searching for images here let me go back up to what I found this morning what Google is changing is their basic image search results in the next 24 hours are gonna kind of look like this right here in the middle of your screen in other words it's going to say okay we think we found the perfect photo picture for you and then we're gonna say okay that's it and then we're gonna kind of put the related ones off to the side of it this was literally announced yesterday at 4 30 in the afternoon Pacific time and they said in the next 24 hours so actually this should be up and running by the end of today thank you Google for waiting until after I presented actually I'm torn I would have rather shown you the new version and had to kind of move through that and figure it out on the fly than to say well here's how it works now but by the end of today it'll probably work differently thank you Google but you know it's got to change at some point so okay few other kinds of searches I want to talk about briefly a Google video and again I've just opened a new tab Google video I find it's very interesting it searches not just Google video which really doesn't upload much anymore searches YouTube because Google owns YouTube but it also searches other websites such as Daily Motion, PP2GTV, lots of other sources so you don't necessarily if you go to YouTube and search you're only searching YouTube content use Google video search you're searching content across multiple sources so again I'm gonna search snow why the heck not let's let's stick with the theme and so we get YouTube we get Daily Motion there is gonna be a lot of YouTube because that's where a lot of video Hulu, Vio, MetaCafe so there are lots of different sources and and what I find really cool about this is it will then actually play right here in most cases so let's let's go let's try the Hulu one actually I'm gonna click on Hulu and it should load up over here on the right hand side of the screen and actually start playing now it probably won't play well I won't actually play it because of the streaming we're doing to the audience here but it has that and then below that it's related videos so you can scroll through this you can play them right here you don't necessarily need to go off to another website although I have seen that happen I that's why I tested Hulu because sometimes you'll click on it and say we're sorry you can actually play it here you actually have to go to that website to play it so and then from right here you can email this video and you can see related videos and you can watch it bigger you can in big in it as as it's sometimes called and then we have related searches down here in your page through and it has a thing about Google alerts which we'll come back to in a little bit so you know Google video search kind of simple and again options show options here we go do you want the the list view the grid view what's the duration how recent is the video sorted by date so if you're looking for news reports on a particular topic sorting my date would be great get the latest news sources that it goes through again turn those options on there's a lot of new stuff hiding under there okay back to my list to make sure we have a question here let me look no okay that's a question from earlier okay Google scholar it's another one of Google searches in this case for those of you who are concerned about the pride that people are finding out the internet try Google scholar this is literally going to limit you to scholarly peer reviewed sorts of resources they just added legal opinions have been added I think federal case law going back decades has recently been been added I here so just for well let's do it let's let's let's go first it says oh read more okay so yeah they've added case law very recently I'm not sure we'll find any case law under snow let's go ahead and try to do a snow search here and the SF 36 health team survey organizational strategy oh in this case we have Charles see snow probably in this case knows gonna be a lot of author names would be my guess but you can limit to articles and patents legal opinions you have advanced search here's federal cases you can include citations or include at least summaries what's really nice I don't do a lot of scholarly research just kind of not my area but if you'll notice here under each result you have number of citations related articles and different versions of the article so you know it may be if it was published in multiple locations maybe you're only going to be able to get it through one of the online databases you subscribe to you might want to look at the different versions and say hey we subscribe to that database we can probably get it through here citations I you know don't want to actually look at all four thousand citations but in this case here are links to the four thousand results that link back to that original article and in this case it even tells you if it's maybe from Google books or if it is a book what where's it coming from Duke PSU you the t.ml you know international resources has your citation where it's coming for from in this case JSTOR if you have access to that if you're an academic so Google scholar can get really really good results really focused results here notice there are not options in this case they haven't integrated the options into Google scholar but there is an advanced search and there is a scholar preferences section which in the interest of time I won't go into it too much detail okay one more I think actual site by you before I'll get into some of the other really interesting things they've done is we have Google patents so full text patent searches I to be honest think it's a lot better than you going to USPTO.gov and doing their search and we'll stick with our snow theme here this is completely Chris this fall by the way I asked her earlier so we have our in this case the options are already there cover view I kind of like cover view because you can pull up you know what oh looks you know the draw snowboarding and some of these that I have absolutely no idea what any of this snow shovel design all right the extendable snow shovel let's look at the extendable snow shovel so we bring that up we can read the patent we can download as a PDF we can cross-reference by citations when it was filed when the patent was issued you can keyword search within this patent which I think is really cool get the abstract the drawing the description the claims what other patents reference this one so completely cross-referenced and a lot of them and you know what is it claiming there are the drawings I I just I think this is you know amazing pulling that right up there's your your full detailed drawing and then you can clip this you can link to it you can post feedback to it I think this is the most ridiculous pattern I've ever seen trust me there's some of them so you know you got you got to do a patent search she's check out Google patents first I would say all right so those are some of the kind of specific searches that they have and I kind of want to now kind of go off into the the more interesting realm of what you can do with Google and some of these I can't actually demonstrate I can just talk about and the first one I'll talk about here is goog411 and I will not actually play that video there's a couple things you can do here while Chris and I both have given presentations on how you can do things on your mobile phone and one of the things you can do is you can actually text Google you you text GOOGL whatever that number works out to I can't remember it off the top of my head and it will actually text you back results so you can say like pizza 68522 it will it will text you back you have a text plan going the next step up on my phone I can actually my phone knows where I am and so I can just hit a button and I can say pizza and it will return a Google result of pizza based on where I physically standing at the moment I mean that just like totally impresses me but let's just say you have a phone or a cell phone without a texting plan you can actually call 1-800-GOOGL411 and do Google searches by voice and then it will actually offer to dial through for you to that actual business so something I can't really demonstrate here you know maybe if we test it but next time around but you can actually just call Google okay and I just want to pause here for a moment and force you to think about the concept of they can call Google instead of calling the library I'm you know I like it or not just think about that one you know maybe you don't want to tell lots of people about this I don't know basically like getting to the example I want to know a local pizza place so here's where I am I want pizza cool now I can order my pizza yeah not the kind of thing you call the library to find out what the pizza places are yeah I mean true I in there there are different scenarios but I just think the fact that you can now call Google is vaguely impressive it means they've got some money okay now speaking of calling Google this is one this is this just totally goes into the next realm and and this is the one thing where you can't just sign up for this you have to be invited by somebody who has invitations to give at this point it's called Google voice and this is Google going the other direction I'm we're gonna show you my inbox here I'm gonna kind of talk about how this works and you can read those messages and only one of them is a real-life message the ones where I was playing around with it but there's a couple ways you can look at this method number one is if you you sign up for Google voice and it gives you a phone number so I actually have a Google voice phone number okay what I can then do is I can start giving people that phone number say call me at my Google voice number okay it's just a regular phone number what I can then do in Google voice is say things like okay um during 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. if somebody calls that number please automatically forward it to my desk in my office but on the evenings and weekends please forward it to my house phone or my cell phone or I can say you know what it but on the weekends please have it ring my house phone and my cell phone yeah because I might be out exactly then what I can do is I can set up things based on who's calling me so I can say well it's Krista she's a co-worker if she calls my cell phone you know what just send her directly to voicemail probably work I don't want to deal with it right yeah it's probably work I don't want to deal with but if it's my wife please ring every phone I have because she's probably trying to get a hold of me and then the outgoing voicemail message I can set up one voicemail message that Krista hears is my co-worker but a different voicemail message that my wife hears if I don't answer the phone now let me take this one step further what I have done is because really I'm really established with my cell phone number it's my only phone I have I don't want to give people other phone numbers but what I've done is I've set up and you can do this on any cell phone you don't have to have one in fact you can do this on any any phone I think even a landline if you have a Google voice account you can have Google voice be your voicemail so you can so if you were to call my cell phone Google voice would take over not Verizon's voicemail Google voice will take over and allow you to leave me a message in Google voice but then what Google voice does as you can see right here is it will transcribe that message you left me in a text and I can play it back right here but what I can then also do is have it email me that transcription or send me a text message of that voicemail so if you were to call me on my cell phone and I didn't answer it would say thank you for calling this person please leave a message and you would leave a message and you would hang up Google would transcribe what you said sometimes quite well sometimes not so well I will admit it's not perfect and then send me a text message of the message you left so I don't actually have to call my voicemail anymore your message gets turned into a text message and I get it on my phone or an email or both and the words that are in gray by the way are the words it wasn't really sure of that's that's what the the text is going on there and so far only one person has actually left me a voicemail since I turned this on and that was Katya there so you know eventually somebody will leave me a voicemail where like I can't show it in public pick up milk on the way home I don't know so Google voice is like so really really cool and I think I'm out of invites no I have two invites left hmm I'm gonna throw this out here first two people who are interested who email me will get the invites okay so you know if you you know you know you have to figure out my email address of course it's already been on the screen so you know email me anywhere first two people I'll give you a Google voice and invite if you want to play around with it I think it's really really really cool all right let's go back to my list here and I'm just gonna check the room for questions okay no questions at this point back to my list what else do we have to play with here okay let's talk about Google alerts Google alerts I think are pretty cool they've been around for a while and what you can do is you can enter a search term so let's say you're interested in snow is probably not a good example here you're something in a little more specific let's say gout okay because you know I'll admit it I periodically suffer from gout and so I want to get you know kind of the latest results on gout now I can say do I want a new search blog search web search a comprehensive meaning everything search a video search or groups search well you know what let's let's do news okay I wish I could do scholar in this case that would be pretty cool but not available through this and this is okay how often do you want to check do you want to check as it happens instantaneous once a day or once a week well yeah I'm thinking once a week will be fine and then where do I want this delivered to do I want it delivered to my gmail address so I want to deliver to my working address which is now out of date this is something you do in your Google account as you set up multiple email addresses or I can even get it as an RSS fee okay well not wanting to get into RSS too much let's just say you know send it to gmail and I go create alert and so what I've got here is I have set up some different alerts and here I have my gout alerts it's a new search it's going to be delivered via email and it will check once a week okay a few others these ones are somewhat self-explanatory and maybe not so much but for example this one here's my ego search so if Google comes up with any sort of search result that mentions me I will automatically be no notified as it happens and I'm going to view it as a feed I'm getting it in my Google reader I was doing a talk in Las Vegas this last summer so I set up one of these and at this point I could probably just kind of delete that so I'm gonna like check and say delete and now it's gone because I don't really need that one anymore so if you have things that you are wanting to keep up to date on or doing research I mean let me an example I know we have one or two academic librarians in the room you know if you are a subject liaison or a liaison for a particular member of the faculty of the campus and you know they are researching a particular topic set up a Google alert on their topic you get notified and then whenever you find something new you think they'd be interested in you send them an email saying hey I found this new article for you they will love you I mean really I you know set this up it other than the maybe five minutes it will take to do in the first place it will just start showing up in your inbox or via an RSS feed and then all you got to do is just forward it off to that person and you are set and they know now you are the person who is aware of what they're researching and can find the information they're looking for and you know if you can find it and send it to them in ten minutes after it happens it chances are they were in a class teaching and they didn't know about it yet they found out because of you so just think about that okay so let me go back to my list and talk about a few other things here's one this is the Google news timeline I discovered this two days ago so I haven't had a chance to play with it but basically it's a different view of what's going on in Google news from different sources than if you just went to news.google.com so this is another one of their labs feature as you can see up here in other words they're not really marketing it it's kind of there if you go to Google labs you'll find it but not totally there so different view you can it's pulling in Google news time magazine and Wikipedia you can add additional things you can kind of change the size as to how much is viewed on the screen you kind of see how news is progressing play around with this one I really don't have a lot else to say about it because I haven't had a chance to really dive into it myself quite yet okay this reminds me of one other option and so I'm gonna let me show you Google labs real quick and then we'll go into the experimental search Google labs is found at www.googlelabs.com and this is where you can find the image swirl this is where you can find the news some of this stuff I'm gonna talk about social search in just a sec fast flip Android there's some really oddball things in here there's some projects that they're really trying to work out for example this one related links I've kind of looked into that where it's a way to say on my blog embed a little piece of code that whenever you view a blog post it automatically shows you what Google thinks are related links to that post that I wrote so it's not really searching it's kind of a way to to make your website a little more interactive cross-referencing sort of thing so you know poke around in Google labs there there's some interesting stuff in there one that's here that I'm also going to show you in another place is called Google search and this is something I've started playing around with and this is available by going to the Google experimental labs so this isn't even labs this is experimental labs this is the really out there like they came up with this last week sort of stuff and what you do is you have to actually join the experiment to get the feature turned on so I'm gonna go ahead and click join this experiment which is weird because I thought I already had and it says okay you've now joined this experiment so what I'm gonna do now is an open I'm gonna go to Google.com and I'm gonna do my snow search again this is just a general Google query and I'm gonna click show options now one of the things that you I have now that I didn't have before is this link called social okay and what this is going to do is it's only going to show me results from people in my social circle online that Google knows about so people who I blogs I subscribe to in Google reader friends that are in my contact list in Gmail and so it's only going to show me results from kind of people I quote unquote no so here is the backblaze blog which is something I follow scruffy nerf I actually don't know who that is Michael Gorlick's blog people I follow in Flickr another blog I follow here's Nebraska libraries.org because I follow that blog Josh Neff who I know and follow his blog so it's it's it's this is super experimental but the idea is you're looking for information on a topic what are my friends saying about this topic what are they reading what are they what do they know about you'll see kind of the different people that are listed here kind of down the left in this case really experimental I think really interesting though this is that social web overlapping with search now I want to stress this is pretty much only in Google stuff but actually Flickr is owned by Yahoo oh but I'm subscribing to the Flickr feed in Google Reader so that's how it knows about a Flickr source so you can bring in other things you're not right you would you would do it exactly so so you know Google's trying to build this ecosystem here and and and I things are going through my head like am I giving Google too much information which leads me to the next thing this is perfect there is I think this is back up here at the top the Google dashboard okay the Google dashboard is as long as you're logged into your account it lists everything Google knows about you this is dangerous and I kind of put it in it's asking me to verify that I'm me and so it says okay so according to your Google account your name is your nickname is and here are your email addresses you can see websites that are authorized to access this I've set up five Google alerts and my most recent one is on gout that I did this morning I have an analytics account which is a way for Google to track website statistics it's trying to get stuff from blogger it's trying to get stuff from calendar have I bought anything through Google checkout have I set up any custom searches am I using Google docs and I've thought that I've got 302 entries in my contacts now I can actually see all this data but you know pardon me if I don't actually get to a particular you know what's going up with Gmail have I done anything in Google health have I done anything with I Google Google latitude I haven't even talked about some of this stuff but this is this is like literally you know when when I've done things Google latitude this is where it thinks I am right now and it's pretty darn close if I hit a button on my phone it would tell me I've set up my phone so that Google knows where I am at all times and I can actually then allow my friends to see that information through something called Google latitude have I uploaded anything to Google with their Picasso web albums I mean this is just how many things am I reading in and reader how many contacts do I have in Google talk how many tasks do I have Google voice you too this this is an interesting sort of all in one place what does Google know about you assuming you have an account it's it's nice if it's you it might make you think about what Google doesn't doesn't know about you I kind of leave that up to you along with that is the view your profile and this is another thing you can set up if you have a Google account this is kind of an interesting way to say you know what I want a website that's about me that I can link to for people so like if they want more information but I don't actually go set up a whole website so you can set up a Google profile some people use LinkedIn for this you know I always encourage if you set up a Twitter account you should give a URL to like back to to find out more information about you well okay I don't have a website okay well go set up a Google profile and you can you can control all of this you know you don't have to have it say where you've been recently you don't have to have it pull in recent flicker photos you don't have to say where you grew up or schools you've attended this is completely customizable by you so just kind of one more of those services that are availed okay what sounds have got here I'm kind of running towards the end okay let me talk about just some resources where you can find out more about Google and the first one I'll pull up here is the official Google blog you can subscribe to this you can read it as you see fit you can get a via email if you even want to and this is where they post things like hey we're gonna update image search in the next 24 hours and hey we're gonna be giving a presentation at this conference and hey you should vote for us in this contest so we pull this down here and they're talking about some sort of you know vote for us here is the blog post from yesterday about new pictures Google model your town competition so really you know if you're just trying to keep up on what's going on with Google you know maybe you should subscribe to the blog Townsend 3D using Google Earth something I would not try to show over okay more Google products you can get to this basically if you go to the Google homepage then there's a more link and then at the bottom of that there's like show me everything this is Google's official list of all of Google stuff okay so here's where you can get alerts in the blog search which I didn't even talk about and Google code and Google labs and blogger and Gmail and Google finance and Google health and all of this is kind of their official list okay and notice it's you know maybe if you printed out a page and a half long okay well let me show you another one in this one out two weeks ago looking there's a podcast called this week in Google and it's other people talking about what's going on with Google well this guy put up a complete and total list of all Google services in a spreadsheet wow and some of this stuff I didn't even know about okay and I never heard of and sometimes there's an audience list so you know if you're a publisher or if you're an advertiser if you're a developer when it launched doesn't cost any money a link to the help a link to Q&A ideas for how you could use it is there a blog associated with that particular product if we were able to scroll off to the right which I can't for a moment is there a Twitter account for that product so if you want to follow them on Twitter and even some that are closed like Google answers doesn't exist anymore so they've shut that down there is if I scroll all the way down here remember how long that list was on the official Google page we are currently at I'm almost to the bottom this list is going up okay 344 different products and projects that Google is working on or have been closed there's not a lot of closed ones there did you know their work they've got Google Chrome which is the browser they've launched early versions of their operating system which I played with it's pretty cool they've announced a new programming language that Google has created I mean they are doing more than just search there is a lot of stuff in here to play with did you know that Google's offering free Wi-Fi and a lot of airports this holiday season there you go so I mean there is just web history web elements Google video some of these you may be part the US Puzzle Championship contest they must be a sponsor TV ads I there is just look at this list I mean it's just it's unbelievable the stuff that is hiding here stock quotes I like there was Google squared experimental and by the way there there's now an early beta version of their complete their they're working a completely revamping how plain old Google search works and it's hiding in here somewhere and there is a way to turn that on and turn that off so through cookies it's some weird thing and you can force your your Google interface to now use the new interface it's coming early next year I mean there is so much stuff hiding in this list that I think you should take a look at some of this stuff has to do with just cell phones oh here's the Google SMS so I was mentioning earlier you can text message Google and get search results that way it's four six six four five three is what you do Google sky they run a wiki service called side wiki yeah play with this list I it's an amazing list to look at I've just scratched the surface some of the stuff I talked about in this session I found using this list I had no idea they exist so and he's constantly keeping that up to date so and we have some time I'll open up for questions I did forget to mention here there is the Google blog search which is blog search dot Google dot com and this is only searching content from blocks so if you hate blogs don't ever go here but no blogs including things like you know Anderson Cooper 360 blog so it's not just you know Josh mow what I had for breakfast here's the CNN political ticker I mean and you can narrow it down to politics and world of business and technology and video games and movies and whatever so it is just the fact that all of the results are from specifically just blocks which shows you how much impacts as an information source blogs are so alright I've been talking a lot um any questions we've got a few minutes left if you have any questions you can go ahead and say so in the questions section of your go-to webinar interface we can unmute you also if you want if you have a microphone so you can let us know that oh okay there were questions okay I think you need to click on them yeah let's go in order that we got any option to search for pages for images similar to determines what similar means in my experience they're looking at things like color shapes the lines in the image I'm sure there's an about page that gets a little more specific it's kind of one of those things where I use the snow example but the Eiffel Tower example I it works off of things like if you go to you search Eiffel Tower you get a lot of pictures of the Eiffel Tower during the day but then you find one that's really nice of the Eiffel Tower at night click on similar images and you'll get all sorts of pictures of the Eiffel Tower at night it just kind of it looks at the colors it looks at the shapes it looks at the lines and says hey I think these images are similar um I gotta admit I hate to say this because I like to know how things work but when things work I don't generally ask why it's kind of like I'm just kind of looking at that going wow okay I'm impressed if you're really interested try to find like a really weird image search for something that you know completely abstract and and click similar images and see what sort of results you get I think it's just just really cool where and how does one sign up for a Google account okay um yeah I can show that let me let me bring that up here give me a sec to kind of get things out of the way on the screen if I just go to google.com and in the upper right hand corner right now it's a sign out so I'm gonna go ahead and do that it now says sign in and so you have basically username password and down below it says create an account now now if you already have a Gmail account a Google calendar account a YouTube account any a blogger account chances are you already have a Google account so any kind of Google related account counts should count yes now like if you have a blogger account from several years ago it might not completely translate there's a few things but if you have an account with any Google service try signing into Google with that username and password especially if the username is like a Gmail address that pretty much guarantees it and that should work if it doesn't it will say we're sorry that doesn't work would you like to sign up or in the case of blogger it might say would you like to merge the two accounts and you can follow through with that so I think of that that's um try it if you think you've already got one if not just go to the Google homepage click on sign in and then create an account now the simplest way to do it but I wouldn't try an existing account first you don't end up with multiple accounts that gets really really messy what is the cost for these Google accounts Jan asks free now particular services might cost for example going back to Google voice for a moment you can actually use Google voice to make phone calls to landline phone numbers that costs money but if you just call another Google voice user it's I think it's free if you go Google voice to Google voice or if you just use Google voice to receive messages things like that that doesn't cost either so there are some particular examples that cost money but you know if you want Google to run ads for you that would be something that will cost you some money potentially because you have to pay for the ads right but a Google account in and of itself most of this is free now it's free because they're collecting lots of information about you're giving him something right that's the cost you can think of it as like you know discount cards at grocery stores great example okay yes you might get a discount it's free to sign up but they're collecting information about your shopping habits I don't want to make you paranoid but that is a legitimate concern and you need to decide how comfortable you are with that information getting to Google I'm actually using something called Google health a lot of people have an issue with this one I've actually linked it to my Walgreens prescriptions account and it will track my medications for me but I've decided I'm okay with that now I I've taken like one medication in the last year so I'm not I'm not on a regular drugs and you know anything like that but then I can go through and I can log what I've gone doctors appointments and I've got all that in one place I've read Google's privacy statement I'm comfortable with it when it comes to Google health a lot of people though just think that's going a little too far it's up to you yeah and our last question is a comment thank you Janet I did unmute everybody if you have a microphone and you want to ask a question or make a comment or something you are all unmuted if you do have one feel free anybody out there now I have a pink voice on running through my head and I hope I'm sharing that with all of you okay if there's no other questions right now I think you can wrap it up you do know where to contact Michael if you do have anything else you want to know about it we also encourage you obviously to explore all of these sites and things that he went to in the pages that are all the other Google information like you said this is on his delicious count right now we will be adding it to the commissions account where we put all of our links for all of our encompass live sessions as well so you'll have multiple places to go to to get it when the recording is announced I'll have it linked to the commissions account with all of these so thank you very much for attending this this week and I hope we'll join you you'll join us next week when we will be talking about using American fact finder for mining the US Census for information about your compute community doing some planning and research on your local area so thank you you're welcome we hope it was helpful to you think we are good to go thank you very much