# Increase your Google-Fu! **URL:** \ **Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\ **Created:** [July 3, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-your-google-fu/22810 "2012-07-03T18:15:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-your-google-fu/22810/1 "2012-07-03T18:15:28Z")
Free classes on power googling, from Google themselves: [http://www.google.com/insidesearch/landing/powersearching.html](http://www.google.com/insidesearch/landing/powersearching.html) – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-your-google-fu/22810/2 "2012-07-03T18:34:22Z")
On 7/3/2012 11:15 AM, Susan wrote:[color=blue] > Free classes on power googling, from Google themselves: > > [http://www.google.com/insidesearch/landing/powersearching.html](http://www.google.com/insidesearch/landing/powersearching.html) > [/color] _blink_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-your-google-fu/22810/3 "2012-07-03T19:06:59Z")
On 03/07/2012 16:34, JayZie wrote:[color=blue] > On 7/3/2012 11:15 AM, Susan wrote:[color=green] > > > Free classes on power googling, from Google themselves: > > > > [http://www.google.com/insidesearch/landing/powersearching.html](http://www.google.com/insidesearch/landing/powersearching.html) > > [/color] > > _blink_ > [/color] > 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-your-google-fu/22810/4 "2012-07-06T18:48:17Z")
Six 50-minute classes?!? To learn how to search?!? Sheesh! – Kim - 7/6/2012 9:47:10 AM ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-your-google-fu/22810/5 "2012-07-08T23:42:47Z")
Kim: To learn ADVANCED search techniques. This is an ADVANCED class. I listened to a “Google Search for Genealogy” webinar one afternoon and picked up quite a few tips from that, and my Google Fu is already pretty darn good, so figure this one ought to bring a few more good tips. This reminds me of when I was trying to get you to watch the Google Wave video. So nevermind. – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-your-google-fu/22810/6 "2012-07-11T22:43:35Z")
Hey Susan, [color=blue] > This reminds me of when I was trying to get you to watch the Google > Wave video. So nevermind[/color] Hey…I’m doing it! who vs the who vs a who. black and white vs white and black… – Kim - 7/11/2012 1:42:49 PM ---
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LOL! I’ve already learned at least one new thing, so as far as I’m concerned, it’s working the way I want it to work. If you’ve done the activities after the videos, one of the questions they show as false is actually true. The one where it asks if words in close proximity of one another may result in better rankings. If you answered true, it was considered wrong, but it’s true. They’re correcting the error in their own test. : ) – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-your-google-fu/22810/8 "2012-07-11T23:50:45Z")
Hey Susan, [color=blue] > one of the questions > they show as false is actually true. The one where it asks if words in > close proximity of one another may result in better rankings. If you > answered true, it was considered wrong, but it’s true[/color] Yea…I got 4 of 5 (or was it 5 of 6) and I checked it twice and three times and couldn’t figure it out. I then went through from the top and changed the answer to each question until it hit that one which made it “correct”. The guy in the video had just said it did! A couple of things I really didn’t know: The usual “stop words” (a, the, an, etc) really do make a difference. Also the order of the words makes a big difference. – Kim - 7/11/2012 2:47:31 PM ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-your-google-fu/22810/9 "2012-07-11T23:52:25Z")
but…anyone that doesn’t know ctrl-F by now is living a really sheltered life. 🙂 So far, I wouldn’t put the stuff in lesson one as “Advanced” but pretty basic stuff, even though I wasn’t aware of a couple of things. – Kim - 7/11/2012 2:50:55 PM ---
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Kim: I wouldn’t consider it advanced, either, but it I suspect they want to make sure that they cover everything they consider more advanced than average. While Ctrl+F is common to you and me and others in the industry, it’s not so common to lots of others. Just check the forums they’ve got to see how many people didn’t find the earthquake results right off the bat. I know many people who’ve used computers for years who would never think to use it on a page full of data. Unfortunately, they seem to be able to remember only a handful of things, none of which is any shortcut keystroke. It always drives me crazy to see someone working with the keyboard, and then move their hand from the keyboard to the mouse to highlight text to copy and paste it. But they do it allllll the time. I used the same method as you to find out which one they thought was wrong that I thought was right, and then found something in the forums where they acknowledged “a small bug” in their system. That made me laugh. I didn’t know about the + searching Google+, or all of the special characters that aren’t considered in searches. I also didn’t know they had 200 internal criteria searches that were done on the initial results of a search done by someone, that lead to the ranking of the results. That’s much more than I thought. I knew about the most common ones, like keywords, synonyms, page rank, the usual SEO stuff, but 200 is quite a lot. I’d love to know what the rest of them are, but I’m guessing after the first five or so, the rest are proprietary. – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy)