You want to find documents on US government websites about gamers, people who play video games. What search query do you use?
You want to follow your childhood dream to become an animal trainer, so you decide to check the Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov) to see the wages for animal trainers. What would your search look like?
You are helping a neighbor’s child find information on lions. Since it is football season, when you simply search for [lions] you get many pages on the Detroit Lions mixed in with results about the animal. How could you narrow your results to focus on the animal?
You want pages that talk about Jane Austen books. When you search for [jane austen books] you get a lot of pages selling books by Jane Austen mixed into the results, but you don’t want to buy anything right now. Luckily, you notice that pages selling stuff almost always have the word price on them, so you decide to try rewriting the query so that it eliminates the word price from all your results. What would that query look like?
You recently heard about a TED talk that describes the ‘social lives’ of bacteria. Can you find out which biologist gave this talk in 2009?
You see the image below in your Facebook (or Twitter) feed. Use Google to verify its accuracy.
