Happy Thanksgivukkah, Tech Tip group! Before my tech tip
today, I want to share a song
I wrote to celebrate the coming together of Thanksgiving and the first day of
Hanukkah, an event that only happens once every 70,000 years or so. Here is the
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zCBEv3KsC0
**CAUTION: This video contains photos of Turkeys, which may make you
hungry!**
Thanksgiving Tech Tips
This week’s tech tip includes a few tips while searching the
internet through Google. I have catered it to a Thanksgiving theme.
Google Search by Specific
Site
Google has a really neat feature you can use to specify
which site to search from. All you have to do is add “site:(insert URL here)”
to your search. For example, if you want to search for “stuffing” on the vegan
recipe site veganyumyum.com, you would type “stuffing site:veganyumyum.com” –
here’s what the results look like: http://bit.ly/Ihcsa2
I find this very useful when I know which website in which I
want to search, but when I know their internal search is nowhere near as good
as Google’s.
Google Search by Timeframe
Another search tip is when you’re trying to find current
events or news that is very recent. You can specify the time-frame of your
search in Google based on how recent the results are. For example, if you
search google for “Thanksgivukkah site:youtube.com” it will show you all
results no matter when they were posted.
But if you want to specify the timeframe, you can click
“Search tools”, and then click the “Any Time” dropdown, and select “Past 24
hours”, it will show you just the results that showed up over the past 24
hours. If you do this, you can find the Thanksgivukkah video I uploaded
yesterday called “Thanks a Latke”!
Happy holidays, everyone!
Daniel
