In the google search training courses I learned a lot more about how to be going about searching the web and had a refreshment on some information I already had known in the past. Before I took the courses, I was familiar with some of the tools on how to convert weight or languages, on how to change your location in searching methods like if you wanted to be on google in Japan, and with the way to filter images on google which is a way to only search by one color or to search from a certain time period. In the first power search training course I was able to learn about how certain key word choices can change the whole search, how to search from an image and find the creator or photographer, and to combine search methods to get better results. In the advanced power searching course I was able to learn more about the key elements in being the best searcher.
The first new thing I learned was about the wild card operator and the patterns you must arrange the asterisks in to get a more powerful search, I also learned about google scholar which is a great tool to have when drafting a report because it gives you multiple sources of the exact same information when searching using site structure tools. In the advanced training course, I was able to have a refresh on some topics as well like when he talked about the number range operator which is putting two number in quotes with two dots in between, which will only search in between those two numbers.
I will use some of the skills in my daily life like the key search terms, the conversions, and the file type. The file type should be important when making marketing flyers or putting together presentations to get files in PDF form or CSV whichever you need for the time being. I think some of the course’s challenges were hard to get a hang of, because they did not always tell you the right answer but once I got the hang of it became quite easy to understand. Also, at first, I was hard to get the hang of the power searching when you add or minus a word or add stars or quotations can get tricky cause it seems like they overlap in their usage. The main thing that I learned from the power searching courses was how to just be a better searcher, from the search by image, the shortening of words in a search to removing the invasive results, all of these are setting me up to be a better searcher going from a college student going into the workforce.