Better Googling

Sree.net has an interesting section about its uses of google. With all our talk about google making us stupid, I found this website very intriguing.

Better Googling

Sree lists at least 30 sections pertaining to different areas of use for Google, and different "tricks" you can use on google.

These tricks range from searching for a phone number on Google to using Google by texting from your cell phone.

My favorite section of google is "google earth", a program Google offers for free installation where you can zoom in on different parts of the world via satellite image. Google earth almost seems like a governmental spycam! :)

Sree is a journalist, who is is an unauthorized endorser of Google. I got the opportunity to see him speak at the SPJ National Conference in Atlanta this fall. His main goal is to help educate the public further on using google.

As I sat here and searched through these 30+ different sites pertaining to "google tricks", I thought to myself. What happened to a plain old search engine? I find the new stuff more practical, but sometimes more difficult to use.

Is difficulty levels in even the simplest search engine going to rise in the next couple of years? When I put this into consideration, I think of other forms of technology as well. It's almost mind boggling to me to think of how much technology has improved in the past 2 decades.

The internet went from nothing, to now-- where researchers wonder if the world wide web will run out of space soon. (That's a whole other story).

As far as sree.net goes, it is a website I highly reccomend .... I like to call it "Google for Dummies". :)