The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 25 minutes.
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1. Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently? by Umer Mansoor (10 min)
- Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 2):
- here is what I thought...
2. 20 Google Search Tips to Use Google More Efficiently by Joseph Hindy (15 min)
- Briefly describe (in your own words) each of the tips below AND provide an example of a search that captures the sentiment of the tip
- Tip 2:
- Tip 3:
- Tip 4:
- Tip 9:
- Tip 13:
- Tip 14:
- Tip 17:
If you have any questions, comments, or confusions from any of the readings that you would like an instructor to address, list them below:
Article 1
Google has become very popular with the past of the years and is available for everyone, but the way this tool can be used it depends in every person. All this information that we have access, can help us or can give us problems. The take-away for this article, it is related to our professional judgment on how we are going to use these tools to complement or reinforce our work based on the data and information that Google gives us. Also, this tool can become a very good reference point to improve our work.
Article 2
Tips 2, 3 and 4:
They are a great tips to improve our search in google, because these three tips have a common thing and it is the use of punctuation attributes in our search, this can help our browser to be more specific and clear in the search. The implementation of "quotes", -hyphen and colon: make a big difference .
Tip 9:
The implementation of multiple words and second words or phrase, helps the browser to have more options and direction to our search on the web. I think the use of synonyms can be a good option for this tip. ("fix my display" & "repair my display").
Tip 13, 14:
These Tips help me to understand that computers language is different than human language and a good way practice their language is trying to think like them. Prioritizing words and organizing my phrases are a good techniques for it. For instances: "What places can I visit in Japan" - "Japan Highlights".
Tip 17:
The perspective is very important for the use of descriptive words in google, because when we are having problems to find something probably we have to try to look in different perspective our point.