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New Google Search Features

Google has recently released some new search tools – “Voice Search” (for Chrome) and “Search by Image”

Voice Search for Chrome

 

Voice Search allows you to simply search Google by speaking the search words into your microphone, instead of typing the words. This would be useful for students who find spelling difficult or have trouble using the keyboard.

View the demo video at the link below.

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/voicesearch.html

Search by Image

 

Search by Image allows you to search Google by using images instead of words. You can upload images or use images already on the web, simply by dragging the image into the search field.  Google uses computer vision techniques to match your image to other images in the Google Images index and additional image collections. From those matches, Google will try to generate an accurate “best guess” text description of your image, as well as find other images that have the same content as your search image

A useful tool to look for similar images or try to identify where the image was taken or related content.

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html

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28.Jun.11 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Search Multiple Search Engines at Once

ZUULA is a meta search engine which allows users to search multiple search engines with one click.

Enter a search term and then click on  the tabs to view results from various search engines, like Bing, Google, Yahoo, Gigablast, Alexa…..

You can search the  “Web”, “Images”, “News”, Tags” & “Blogs” with each having multiple sources to view results from.

Ideal for students when researching topics.

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01.Feb.11 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Search Engine for Students….

Sweet Search is a series of search engines specially for the education sector and aimed at teachers and students. Each website in SweetSearch has been evaluated vetted by research experts, as suitable for students.

SweetSearch4Me is our search engine for emerging learners.

SweetSearch2Day is where students Learn Something New Every Day.

SweetSearch for School Librarians for content that helps students use the Web effectively.

SweetSites for teachers and students, organized by subject and academic level.

SweetSearch Biographies for profiles of 1,000+ significant people.

SweetSearch Social Studies for our best social studies content.
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There’s also a  Ten Steps to Better Web Research guide to help with searching the web.

http://www.sweetsearch.com/

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27.Jan.11 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Google Search Skills

This site has a number of videos, demonstrating the best search techniques in Google, and how to use Googles extensive toolsets. Suitable for adults as well as students.

Login: e-learningforkids  Password: boostelearning

http://www.boostelearning.com/index.php

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16.Jul.09 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Another Search Engine

This one is simple in the way it shows you the front page of a site, which students may find easier to choose from while searching.

This is the URL http://beta.searchme.com


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01.May.08 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Web Searching Tool

I am not sure if you are checking our Derek’s Blog, the link is at the bottom of this page, but he refers to this website, which I think is fantastic. It is a stepping search engine to use with children, it could not be simpler.

Take a look for yourself.

Search Engine

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16.Apr.08 Sites of Interest Comments (0)