I should write a haiku about Google! – but I NEED to get this done!
I had the most fun exploring Google -and I will definitely return to it to explore other aspects, but there just isn’t enough TIME !
First, I tried all the suggested items for GOOGLE MAPS, some with which I was already acquainted. I have a few comments: 1) instead of the vertical slider, I found it more accurate and easier to control to just click on the city, etc. to zoom in, 2) I knew that I could get an aerial view of the library or the block we live on, etc., but I didn’t know that I could see the front view (except that someone else doing Great8 had told me that you could), so it was amazing to use the “yellow person” icon to manipulate the views available – this ability is both incredible and terrifying at the same time!, 3) just a small correction – I think that Firefox says “more”. Anyhow, I will definitely go back to “maps” and explore some more on a slow day at the library.
Second, since I had not used Google Book Search yet (horrors! – I usually find everything I need in Amazon or WorldCat), I thought that professionally speaking it might be the most useful way to spend my time. I have been searching the last few days in spare moments for a book I had read a few years ago and loved, but couldn’t find again. (It is about restoring a villa designed by Palladio.) I had tried to find it once before and remembered having trouble then, but seem to have a mental block about how to get to it. I had already looked every way I could think of in our system, scanned the shelves, tried Amazon and WorldCat, all to no avail. By searching in Google Advanced Search under the terms “villa Italy Palladio 1995-2007 English, I found my book fairly easily! The amazing thing I discovered was that you can click on “find this book in a library” and it comes up with the WorldCat listing with our system listed first! WOW! I’m impressed! Google search programs and indexing must be better than any other service. I’m a convert! Buy Google stock!
The last comment I have on this “adventure” is that I tried to print out LifeHacker’s Top 10 and found that it won’t print- anyone know how to make me a copy?
While I cannot outsmart Google by suggesting anything to change, I can see many ways to use it in both my personal and professional lives. In looking through the “More” listing of services, it is truly mindboggling what Google can do – I’m not sure I’ll live long enough to do it all!
The following is why what I write I call “Haiku doggerel”:
HAVE BLOG TO OGLE.
Need Google? Use “bloggles”. Get
GOO GOO GOOGLEY EYES !
