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A useful post that give a lot of good advice about how to get the best from your Google searches. Google has become very good at understanding and providing relevant results for many popular queries, so there are a lot of people getting into bad habits and lazy with their searches and simply taking the auto-selected results. As teachers we should be teaching our students to explore more deeply and critically appraise all their results before coming to any conclusions or using the information. Students need to learn to use Google search modifiers. These manual commands can be used in any search queries and will allow you force Google to bring you the results you want.

"A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging."

"A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging."

Handy tips on how to search on Google

The latest tips on how to use google for more efficient searching

Looks handy.  Tutorials for using Google Docs, sites, etc.

Infotopia-A Safe Google Alternative Search Engine for Students

Some useful tips to improve your Google searches

Info lit exercises from Google

There is a new digital divide on the horizon. It is not based around who has devices and who does not, but instead the new digital divide will be based around students who know how to effectively find and curate information and those who do not. Helene Blowers has come up with seven ideas about the new digital divide - four of them, the ones I felt related to searching, are listed below.

Links to a number of visual search engines

Good search engine for students; has American bias

Another alternative to Google for students

This is a fabulous place to visit and an amazing array of information about Antarctica and the tragic history of Tasmanian indigenous people.

I've actually noticed this happening more and more with Google search.