Blog Post #2

We have gone through three classes through Power Searching with Google. Each class has been focused on the different ways you can filter and specify what results you want to get from Google. In the first class, I learned that you can filter your image results by the colors that appear most prominently in them. I also learned that the way you order the words in your search has an impact on the results as well. In the second class, I learned that there are all sorts of media that you can look through. I knew that there was images and web and news but I didn't know that you can also choose patents and it will give you instructions for building different things. I also learned about the SERP, or Search Engine Results Page. And finally, in the third class, I learned that there are different ways you can filter your results. You can use intext:___ to find a certain word or term in the pages that Google comes up with or use the double quotation marks to show that you want a specific phrase. The second thing I learned about was the different file types that there are in Google. I knew about the PDF and DOC files but there's also things like PPT and I thought that was interesting.