Hello Dear Friends, Collogues and Students, I am Prijith Jacob Thomas working with Fatima Mata National College, Kollam Kerala India. This presentation was prepared during my services as librarian Mar Athansios College for Advanced Studies Tiruvalla. The purpose of this presentation is purely academic. I happen to go through a Book titled “ Google Secrets by Yvette Davis Published by Wiley India Pvt Ltd. When I went through that document the scope of Google search and services of Google was really amazing. Then I decided to share this information in the form a presentation. Prijith Jacob Thomas Librarian UGC Fatima Mata National College Kollam Kerala www.prijith.wordpress.com

1. Google Products, Goggling
Prijith Jacob Thomas
Librarian
Mar Athanasios College for Advanced
Studies (MACFAST)
Tiruvalla Kerala
prijith707@gmail.com

2. Google Products
 Web :
Google Search Engine
Google Chrome ( Browser)
Google Toolbar
 Media
YouTube, Google Books, Google News, Google
Scholar, Image search, Picasa , Google Map etc

3. Google Products… Contd
 Geo
Maps :
Panoramio : geo-location oriented photo sharing
 Social Networking
Orkut
Google Plus
Blogger
Groups

4. Google Products… Contd
 Home & Office
Gmail
Google Drive
G-Talk
Google Calendar
Translate
 Specialized Services
Blog Search
Finance etc

5. Major Google Products a Brief History
 Google search is developed by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin students of Stanford developed search engine as BackRub
(1996), operates on Stanford servers. In 1997 its renamed as
Google a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the
number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. In
May 2000 the ten more language version of Google released.
 Google Toolbar is browser plugin released in December 2000 to
enable searching with out going to Google search page.
 Image search of Google was launched in July 2001 , with offering
access to 250 million images
 Google News with 4000 news sources is launched in September
2002
 Acquired Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger in June 2003
 Orkut the social networking site was launched in January 2004
 Gmail became open to public in April 2004 ( open for every body in
Feb 2007 earlier need invitation)
 Google Desktop Search & Google Scholar a search interface to
search scholarly academic thesis, journals, per reviewed journals

6. Major Google Products a Brief History
 Google Map is alive in Feb 2005
 Google Earth a satellite imagery-based mapping service
combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping
capabilities and Google search released in June 2005 .
 GTalk the chatting software of Google launched in August
2005
 Google reader is introduced in conference on Web 2.0 at
San Francisco in October 2005 ( Google reader is to be
withdrawn from service in July 2013)
 Google Analytics a tool for evaluating web impact is
released in November 2005
 Gmail Mobile version is launched in US on December 2005
 Google Finance released in March 2006 ( later for non US
available from July 2007 and live status updating started in
June 2008)
 YouTube the video-sharing website, created by three

7. Major Google Products a Brief History
 Google Print Program (since renamed Google Book Search) expands through
digital scanning partnerships with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, University of
Michigan and Oxford as well as the New York Public Library
, Google Book begins offering free PDF Downloads of books in the public
domain in December 2006
 Google Docs Available for users in Feb 2007
 Google Health became available for Public May 2008
 Google Chrome Released in September 2008
 Google Latitude a location aware apps launched in Feb 2009
 Google Voice gadget released in March 2009
 Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service was released on April
2012 this enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing.
Source : http://www.google.com/about/company/history

8. Multiple Login / Access
 Use different web browsers ( Google chrome allows
access in single web browser)
 Add Account option and access the different mail

9. Multiple Login / Access contd..
 Forwarding the mail to primary email address

10. Multiple Login / Access contd..
 Enable multiple inbox in your primary account
 Then create a filter and forward all the mail from
added account to the newly created inbox

11. Multiple Login / Access contd..
 Enable send mail as option in primary account

12. Multiple Login / Access contd..

13. Google Securities contd
 Use multiple character passwords ( that includes
alphabets, numerals and symbols)
 Two step verification
Google Account
Security
Two step Verification
Enable

14. Google Securities contd
 Suspicious activity alerts ( email alert and phone alert
available)

15. Google Search
Explicit Phrase :
Enclose the search phrase within double quotes
eg : “internet marketing”
Exclude Words :
use the "-" sign in front of the word you want to exclude
eg : internet marketing –advertising
Exclude Domain :
use the "-" sign in front of the word
eg : internet marketing –.org
Site Specific :
eg : "internet marketing” site:www.smallbusinesshub.com

16. Google Search
Similar Words and Synonyms : add ~ in front of the word
Eg : "Internet marketing" ~professional
Specific Document Types : "filetype:“
Eg : "internet marketing" filetype:ppt
Specific Domain : term:.domain
Eg: internet marketing:.edu
This OR That : Use OR ( capital) between the terms
Eg : Internet marketing OR advertising

17. Google Search
Wildcard : Utilizing the asterisk on Google, you can add
greater flexibility in your search and capture a wider variety
and a larger number of results.
Avoid synonym : Force Google to skip their synonym
suggestions by using a plus sign (+)
Word Definitions : define:word
Eg : define:microeconomics
Numeric Ranges: what’s between the X and Y are two ranges
use X..Y
Eg : Prime minister 1960..2012
Calculator : instead of bringing up the Calculator application
Eg : 15 * 65

18. Google Search
Tips
Avoid stop words viz a; and; for etc in the search bar
Specific search eg : CAT use “CAT” otherwise Google will
display Cat, CAT, catty , C.A.T, cats etc
For price comparison is possible by $ ( Nike bag $ 50) even
though it neglects all the symbols included in the search
bar
Keep short : fewer the term more accurate the result
Make specialty Search
Unit conversion : 5 cups in ounces
Weather : “weather”635 ( 635 is area code)
If we are searching by log in through search will be narrowed
based on search history
If you need privacy searching log out of the account and do
the search otherwise it will remain in your history

19. Google Search
Search Features of Google
Every Day Essentials
Weather : To see the weather “weather” followed by the city
and state
Stock Quotes : To see current market data for a given
company or fund, type the ticker symbol into the search box.
On the results page, you can click the link to see more data
from Google Finance
Time : To see the time in many cities around the world, type in
“time” and the name of the city.
Sports Score : To see scores and schedules for sports teams
type the team name or league name into the search box.
This is enabled for many leagues including the National
Basketball Association, National Football League, National

20. Google Search
Search Features of Google
Reference Tools
Calculator : To use Google’s built-in calculator
function, simply enter the calculation you’d like done into the
search box.
Book Search : If you’re looking for results from Google Book
Search, you can enter the name of the author or book title
into the search box
Earth earthquakes To see information about recent
earthquakes in a specific area type “earthquake” followed by
the city
Unit Conversion : Convert between many different units of
measurement of height, weight, and volume among many
others : enter your desired conversion into the search box
and we’ll do the rest
Public Data : To see trends for population and unemployment
rates type "population" or "unemployment rate" followed by
a state or county

21. Google Search
Choosing Key Word
Synonyms : tilde sign (~) immediately in front of your search
term
Dictionary Definitions ; define space the word
Spell Checker: G oogle’s spell checking software automatically
checks whether your query uses the most common spelling
of a given word. If it thinks you’re likely to generate better
results with an alternative spelling, it will ask “Did you mean:
(more common spelling)?”. Click the suggested spelling to
launch a Google search for that term
Health Search
Health Conditions : To see information about a common
disease or symptom, enter it into the search box and we’ll
return the beginning of an expert summary
Medication : Medications : To see information about most
generic and brand name prescription drugs in the U.S., enter

22. Google Search
Poison Control : You can quickly find the U.S. poison control
hotline (1-800-222-1222) by entering “poison control” or similar
phrases into the search box.
Suicide Prevention : quickly find the phone number for the US
department National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
by entering "suicide prevention" or similar phrases into the search
box
Currency Conversion :use r built-in currency converter, simply
enter the conversion you’d like done into the Google search box
and we’ll provide your answer directly on the results page.
Flu Vaccine Finder : During flu season, search for “flu” to find tips
on how to stay healthy from U.S. Health and Human Services and
a flu shot locator which uses Google Maps to show you nearby
locations offering seasonal and/or H1N1 flu vaccine. Flight
Tracking : To see flight status for arriving and departing
Flight Schedules : To see flight schedules to or from a particular
destination, type “flights from” or “flights to” followed by the city or
airport of interest.

23. Google Search
Related Search : search for web pages that have similar
content to a given site, type “related:” followed by the
website address into the Google search box
Search by Number :
Package Tracking : You can track packages by typing the
tracking number for your UPS, Fedex or USPS package
directly into the search box
Patent Numbers: To search for U.S. patents, enter the
word “patent” followed by the patent number into the
Google search box and hit the Enter key or click the
Google Search button.

24. Google Search Voice Recognition
We can enter the search term by using microphone
Windows 7 or higher

25. Google Search History
For Google search History
Google Login Account Product

26. Google Search History

27. Google Search History editing

28. Google Search
Search possible as
website, map, images, videos, news, shopping, books,
places, blog, discussions, applications and patents.
Narrowing the search in Google search (
www.google.com)
Time viz. last 24 hr, last week, last month & customized
days
All results viz. sites with images, related
search, dictionary, reading level
For others like Google India, Google Australia etc two
more narrowing tools are there.
Searching all websites / webs from India
Set search location and add search locations

29. Google Search

30. Google Search
Narrowing the search in Google search
Time

31. Google Search
Narrowing the search in Google search
Time Customized

32. Google Search
Narrowing the search in Google search

33. Google Search ( Google Nations)
Narrowing the search in Google search
All website/ National

34. Google Search
Narrowing the search in Google search
Location

35. Search Setting
Allows to set the safe search filters ( ON/OFF)
Search Language
Set ON/OFF Google instant prediction
Set results per page
Open Selected option in a new browser
Blocking unwanted site ( block upto 500 websites)
Edit Search history
Select language for Google use with the account
Set location

36. Google Scholar www. http://scholar.google.com
World wide catalogue which bring
 Court opinions
 Academic papers
 Professional journal article
 Thesis
 Abstract
 Patents
 professional societies
 Online repositories, Universities and other web sites

37. Google Scholar www. http://scholar.google.com
 Full text documents are evaluated by scholarly persons of in the
subject field
 Documents evaluated and weighted, along with where the
document published and credibility of author
 Rating of how cited by scholars and how recent
 Helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly
research.
 We can create email alerts
 Advanced search facility is available in Google scholar
 Supporting publishers the worldwide visibility and accessibility
of your content
 Library support organize the world's information and make
it universally accessible and useful

38. Google Scholar www. http://scholar.google.com

39. Google Scholar www. http://scholar.google.com

40. Google Scholar www. http://scholar.google.com

41. Google Scholar www. http://scholar.google.com
Finding Recent Papers
Normally sorted by relevance
"Since Year" to show only recently published papers, sorted by
relevance
(Normally sorted by relevance, change to sort by
date to get date wise)
Click envelope icon to have new results periodically delivered by
email (create alert)
Abstracts are freely available for use, for full text article we
should have paid subscription. However some of full text are
available free.
Related articles" or "Cited by“ for more results

42. Google Scholar www. http://scholar.google.com

43. Google Scholar www. http://scholar.google.com

44. Google Scholar www. http://scholar.google.com
Google Scholar Metrics
Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to
quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent
articles in scholarly publications.
Scholar Metrics summarize recent citations to many
publications, to help authors as they consider where to
publish their new research
Can browse the top 100 publications in several
languages, ordered by their five-year h-index and h-
median metrics
h5-index is the h-index (alternative to earlier impact
factor) for articles published in the last 5 complete
years. This index was suggested by Jorge E. Hirsch and
also known as Hirsch index or

45. Google Scholar www. http://scholar.google.com
Google Scholar Metrics contd…
Can also explore publications in research areas of your interest. To browse
publications in a broad area of research, select one of the areas in the left
column. For example: Social Sciences
To explore specific research areas, select one of the broad areas, click on the
"Subcategories" link and then select one of the options
Browsing by research area is, as yet, available only for English publications
Search for specific publications in all languages by words in their titles
Scholar Metrics are currently based on our index as it was on November
15, 2012.

46. Google Scholar Metrics

47. Google Scholar Metrics

48. Google Scholar Metrics

49. Google Finance http://www.google.com/finance
 Financial Information
 Financial News
 Up to the minute stock price
 Currency rate
 Summaries to follow market
Helps to evaluate performance and wise investment
Steps :
1. Know the stock market symbol of the company by typing
the name of company in finance search box
eg : Nissan
When we select the company Google Finance gives the
name of the office , directors, the physical address, along
with website and company overview

50. Google Finance http://www.google.com/finance

51. Google Finance http://www.google.com/finance

52. Google Finance http://www.google.com/finance
Stock Market information is available as graph we can
condense/ expand using the mouse

53. Google Finance http://www.google.com/finance
Inside the graph we can find letter flags, the flags
corresponds to the lettered news article to the right of
the graph. The news are arranged on the graph in the
order of date and time

54. Google Finance http://www.google.com/finance
We can add company to our portfolio by clicking on add to
my

55. Google Finance http://www.google.com/finance
Review presentation, events will be displayed and we
can add it to our Google calendar

56. Google Finance http://www.google.com/finance
Default area will be overview , here we can manage
investment by using deposit / withdraw link . Here we
can import transaction, edit transaction, edit
portfolio, delete portfolio, download as
Spreadsheet, download to OFX
Compare two or more stocks on graphs
Second Control Tab is Portfolio fundamentals which
gives preferences of each stock in our portfolio over
time
Third Tab is performance shows how shares are faring in
the market which helps you to assess the value of the
share you hold
Next tab is Transaction tab
No of shares, price, commission etc
The performance of the caompany for last 52 weeks

57. Google Finance http://www.google.com/finance

58. Google News http://www.google.com/news
Computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines
from more than 4,500 English-language news sources
worldwide
Google News is available in 70 different languages
Groups similar stories together and displays them
according to each reader's personalized interest ( need
to login to Google account )
Customize language option (also available in Malayalam )
Alerts Weekly, daily or as-it-happens email alerts on any
topic that interests you
Feeds: You can receive updates of various sections of
Google News or Google News search results by
subscribing to RSS or Atom feeds in your favorite feed
reader

59. Google News http://www.google.com/news

60. Google News http://www.google.com/news
Malayalam

61. Google Books http://books.google.com/

62. Google Books http://books.google.com/
Collection of digital books and detailed catalogue about the book
published
For books under copyright GB will show preview of the book
along with rating , comments and list of places to buy
The books are arranged as Cookery, Family and
Relation, business and Economics etc. By clicking over the
book we can read the books / have the details of the books
For books having copyright we could buy it through listed
vendors (rediff , flickart, infbeam etc.)
Books which are not having copyright protection we can
download it for offline reading
We can comment and give star rating for interested books
For further reading we can add it to personal library
We can purchase books through Google play ( but this service
yet to be started in Indi)
Advanced Search facility is availabe

63. Google Books http://books.google.com

64. Google Books http://books.google.com
Advanced Search Tool of Google Books

65. Google Patents https://www.google.com/patents
Google patents contains patents issued by United States Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO)
US patent documents date back to 1790, EPO to 1978.
Can search the full text of U.S. patents by selecting "Patents" from within Google
search , or by typing the grant or application number into Google as follows:
US8000000 or US20090299573
US Patents is avilable on USPTO website also ( paid service)
Download patents individually / bulk as PDF
Prior works could be found by clicking Find Prior Art . The Prior Art Finder
identifies key phrases from EPO and post-1976 US patent documents, combines
them into a search query, and displays the results from Google Patents, Google
Scholar, Google Books, and the rest of the web.

66. Google Patents Advanced Search https://www.google.com/patents

67. Google Patents

68. Google Drive
5 GB of free space
PC and Mac ,Chrome OS, iphone and iPad and Android
devices
Can create new documents, spreadsheets and
presentations
Work together at the same time, on the same doc, and see
changes as they appear
bulky email attachment, could be Send as a link from
Google Drive in Gmail and everyone has the same file,
same version—automatically.

69. Google Multimedia Searches
Images www.images.google.com
Videos www.video.google.com
Podcasts
Audio files

70. Image Search www.images.google.com
Exact image from a particular website search by
“macfast”site:macfast.org
Can sort according to the size of image by selecting from the
option available in navigation bar available on left side
Search by Colour pictures/ dominant colour/black & white in
the image
Advanced search facility is available
Content wise choice ie. Line drwaing, clip art, photo , faces,
news etc.

71. Image Search www.images.google.com
Image search selecting the search tools

72. Image Search www.images.google.com
Image sorting by time

73. Image Search www.images.google.com
Image sorting customized time

74. Image Search www.images.google.com
Image sorting by size

75. Image Search www.images.google.com
Image sorting by colour

76. Image Search www.images.google.com
Image search sorting by type

77. Image Search www.images.google.com
Customizing the view of photo
Select standard view/ show size
When we select show sizes option the size of the image
will be displayed on the image

78. Image Advanced Search www.images.google.com
Advanced Search
Search term option
All these words ( all the terms typed in search box ) food technology
Exact word or phrase ( add quotation mark ) “food technology”
Any of these word ( OR search) food packaging OR food processing
None of these words ( add minus sign before the un wanted words)
food technology –packaging

79. Image Advanced Search www.images.google.com
Narrowing the search
 Size of the image viz. large, medium, small, icon ; pixel of the image ; file
size of image
 Aspect ratio of image viz. tall, square, wide, panoramic
 Colour in image viz. any colour, full colour, black and white and selected
colour from colour box
 Type of image viz. face, photo, clip art, line drawing
 Selected region
 Site/ domain
 File type viz, jpg, png,mbp , ico,svg etc.
 Usage rights : free for use or share, free for use or share even
commercially, free to use, share or modify, free for use ,share or
modify, even commercially
 Safe search ( show most relevant result /filter explicit result ) , this exact
word or phrase ; SafeSearch whether to filter sexually explicit content.

80. Image Advanced Search www.images.google.com
Narrowing the search
Image size :

81. Image Advanced Search www.images.google.com
Narrowing the search
Aspect ratio

82. Image Advanced Search www.images.google.com
Narrowing the search
Colour

83. Image Advanced Search www.images.google.com
Narrowing the search
Type of Image

84. Image Advanced Search www.images.google.com
Narrowing the search
Region

85. Image Advanced Search www.images.google.com
Narrowing the search
Site/domain

86. Image Advanced Search www.images.google.com
Narrowing the search
Safe search

87. Image Advanced Search www.images.google.com
Narrowing the search
File type

88. Image Advanced Search www.images.google.com
Narrowing the search
Usage right

89. Google Video Search
Index videos from various video sharing site and websites.
viz. YouTube, ina.fr, videoevo.com etc.
Initially started as Google videos , later acquired YouTube
and after wards started indexing of video sites also
Search of Videos are possible according to duration of
video, period or time, quality of video , all videos/ close
captioned videos, source websites
Advanced search facility with words, exazct word/phrase,
any of these words (OR search ), none of this word search
( -word)
Search could be narrowed by using tools, language,
duration, posting date, quality, sub titles any, safe search
option

90. Google Video Search

91. Google Video Search
Narrowing Search
Duration of Video

92. Google Video Search
Narrowing Search
Time of creation/posting

93. Google Video Search
Narrowing Search
Customizing time

94. Google Video Search
Narrowing Search
Customizing time

95. Google Video Search
Narrowing Search
Quality of Video

96. Google Video Search
Narrowing Search
Type of video

97. Google Video Search
Narrowing Search
Source of video

98. Google Video Search
Advanced Video Search

99. Google Drive
Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service
which enables user cloud storage
It’s the home for Google Docs now
It gives 5 GB free space to all free of cost
25 GB to 16 TB storage is available for paid subscription
Google Drive setup can be downloaded and installed in
PC
When connected over internet the files in Google Drive
folder will be automatically uploaded to Google cloud
We can update the files either offline/ online, the file in
the cloud will be updated when connected over internet
We can share files on internet and multiple access
facility is available for these file simultaneously

100. Google Drive
Files Supported
Image files (.JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, .TIFF, .BMP)
Video files (WebM, .MPEG4, .3GPP, .MOV, .AVI, .MPEGPS, .WMV, .FLV)
Text files (.TXT)
Markup/Code (.CSS, .HTML, .PHP, .C, .CPP, .H, .HPP, .JS)
Microsoft Word (.DOC and .DOCX)
Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT and .PPTX)
Adobe Portable Document Format (.PDF)
Apple Pages (.PAGES)
Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)
Tagged Image File Format (.TIFF)
Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
TrueType (.TTF)
XML Paper Specification (.XPS)
Archive file types (.ZIP and .RAR)

101. Google Drive

102. Google Drive Home

103. Google Drive Download in Cloud

104. Google Drive Create file
Select Create Document/Presentation/forms etc
, more applications could be collected from apps

105. Google Drive renaming file
click on the link untitled document

106. Google Drive renaming file
Type the file name

107. Google Drive renaming file
confirming the file name

108. Uploading file/files on Google Drive
click on upload file/ folder

109. Uploading file/files on Google Drive
select the folder

110. Uploading file/files on Google Drive

111. Uploading file/files on Google Drive

112. Sharing file/files on Google Drive
click on share link

113. Sharing file/files on Google Drive
enter the email address to which file / folders to be shares

114. Google Drive
Activity Monitoring

115. Google Translate
https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT
Google translation service is a free service provided for
translating between 64 different languages
Translate word, sentence , web page etc. between
different languages
Documents can be uploaded on translate website for
translation
Translated phrases may be added to phrase book and
could be used later
The noun, verb the sample usage of that word/phrase
are be also displayed in the page.
Listening the word using headphone/speaker is available
Reading the word phonetically facility is their

116. Google Translate
Supported Languages
Afrikaans Finnish Malay Vietnamese
Albanian French Maltese Welsh
Arabic Galician Norwegian Yiddish
Belarusian German Persian Current alpha
Bulgarian Greek Polish languages :
Catalan Hebrew Portuguese (that are on test
less reliable)
Chinese Hindi Romanian
(simplified) Armenian
Hungarian Russian
Chinese Azerbaijani
Icelandic Serbian
(traditional) Basque
Indonesian Slovak
Croatian Georgian
Irish Slovenian
Czech Gujarati
Italian Spanish
Danish Haitian Creole
Japanese Swahili
Dutch Kannada
Korean Swedish
English Latin
Latvian Thai
Estonian Tamil
Lithuanian Turkish
Esperanto Telugu
Macedonian Ukrainian
Filipino Urdu

117. Google Translate
Home page select languages enter the word/phrase

118. Google Translate
Verb, Noun etc. display

119. Google Translate
abbreviation display

120. Google Translate
example of usage will be displayed by selecting on the following noted icon

121. Google Translate
can read phonetically by clicking on the icon ( shown in figure)

122. Google Translate
Listening the sound clipping

123. Google Translate
the translated materials could be add as phrase, and can be used in future

124. Google Translate
added in phrase retrieval

125. Google Translate
selecting translator tool kit/ web translator

126. Google Translate
selecting translator tool kit
 Can upload file  Wikipedia Article
 YouTube  Translate
Video Webpage

127. Google Translate
Select Upload - For translating uploaded file then
 Select local file
 Choose file  Select language  Select target
 Translation from translation language
name to be done  Upload file

128. Google Translate
Select Upload - For translating uploaded file then

129. Google Translate
Select Upload - For translating uploaded file then result s
save the translation for future use

130. Google Translate
the translated file could be found from Google translate toolkit page

131. Google Translate
Wikipedia Article & Webpage
 Enter the URL of the page to be translate
 Select language
 Upload for translation ( the rest as per uploaded file)

132. Google Translate
YouTube video
 YouTube video must be public or unlisted
 a non machine-transcribed
 caption track
 must be the owner of the YouTube video in order to
retrieve and upload its caption file for translation.

133. Thank
you…………………

134. NB:
The purpose of this work not a commercial
aspect it purely academic
Courtesy
 Google Secrets by Yvette Davis Published by Wiley India Pvt
Ltd
 https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/
 www.wikipedia.com
 All my friends encouraged me in doing this presentation