Google searching tools

   Abigail Edge, a freelance journalist who does Google News Lab training in Google Tools speaks quickly and with a British accent.
   First up, she recommends a site I hadn’t seen: https://www.journalism.co.uk
   A recap of the training session is at bit.ly/abigail-training.
   She walked us through the basic Google advanced search tools, the categories you can use without extra typing from the Advanced Search page. She showed us how to set them up in the basic Google search line:
   We can use more than one or two double quote phrase blocks:
“sleeping dog” in “Winslow, Arkansas” and “Kansas City” brings up something.
   
I think we all know we can use the asterisk as a wildcard in searches: “a * saved is a * earned” oddly doesn’t lead to pages about how to conserve our precious endangered asterisk supply.

And simply subtract to exclude cars when you are looking for big cats: jaguar -car, -motor, -automobile

   To restrict mentions to those on a particular website:
site:kansascity.com "Eric Greitans"

site:.gov "Eric Greitans"

   To search for sites related to a site:
related:kansascity.com
(That does not pull up the stated site.)

   To search for documents that might impress the editor, such as pdf, xls, etc.:
filetype:csv "glenn close"
Search says: (A CSV is a comma separated values file which allows data to be saved in a table structured format. CSVs look like a garden-variety spreadsheet but with a .csv extension. Traditionally they take the form of a text file containing information separated by commas, hence the name.)
   The more you know.

   Look under Tools for more qualifiers.

   "Google in 1998" shows results as though it were 20 years ago

   Since 2015, more searches take place on mobile than desktop devices.

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Image search and verification:

   One of the options under the Tools menu in Image Search is usage rights. That’s a crucial tool to use if you are trolling for images to repurpose. People who make images can search for every iteration of their work online, and they can track you down.

   To verify images, go to her bit.ly link and figure out what Google says about that, I am tired.

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   To really impress the editor, look for sources at scholar.google.com . You  can select articles or caselaw.

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Public data explorer is just sitting there being versatile at  publicdata.google.com

You don't have to understand coding experience and it works off data from trusted sources. You can take the graphics it generates and embed them into any website.
Sweet.
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Google Trends

https://www.google.com/trends/?

• huge size of the database. 170 times the population of the earth per day.
• people are honest with search engines
• search for topics rather than search terms

Google trends has a twitter feed @googletrends as well as github.com