Yes it should be sent to your inbox that you registered with
http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/
Google it n00b
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Yes it should be sent to your inbox that you registered with
http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/
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Just enrolled for it now, hope iam not too late!
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This was something I found waaaay back in 2004, but it still works now:
Phone book. Good for businesses. You can use phone numbers too.
phonebook: computer stoke
phonebook: m smith stafford
Title pages (the bit that appears in the browser's title).
intitle:solutions
intitle:"overclockers uk"
Search within parts of a longer URL.
inurl:symantec
inurl:geeks
Search within any page text.
intext:”john smith”
Search their meta tags.
inanchor:”consulting”
Narrow down for words from one domain.
“stop error” site:support.microsoft.com
sfc site:support.microsoft.com
Forcing the suffix part of a site i.e. .EDU .COM .ORG .GOV.
“my search term” site:edu
Who links to us?!
link:www.overclockers.co.uk/
File types. Powerpoint (PPT) and Acrobat (PDF) etc.
slideshow filetypept
“instruction manual” filetype
What's related? This is probably based on Google's own index.
Related:bbc.co.uk
Look up a definition like on www.dictionary.com
define “world wide web”
Calculator
2 + 2 = 4
half a cup in teaspoons = 24
Getting my certificate in the mail soon! 
email though 
100% on both assessments. Question 18 was tricky though!
I didn't really learn anything new, however it did show me how useful the things I know actually are. For example I've searched for things in the past and I wanted a PDF file, I would never type 'filetypeDF' because i'm lazy, i'd just add 'PDF' to the end of my query, but the difference between the results is astounding. I'll definitely be using Google more efficiently from now on.
email though 100% on both assessments. Question 18 was tricky though!
I didn't really learn anything new, however it did show me how useful the things I know actually are. For example I've searched for things in the past and I wanted a PDF file, I would never type 'filetype
DF' because i'm lazy, i'd just add 'PDF' to the end of my query, but the difference between the results is astounding. I'll definitely be using Google more efficiently from now on.
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The stuff relating to image searching was excellent, I have to do a lot of image searches at work (usually with an art director sitting over my shoulder) and this has transformed a usually painful task.
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aw man it's closed.
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No, still waiting, got the questionnaire too.
Associate
Shame I missed this. Maybe there will be another
Associate
Aww, this would have been very useful!!
It would have helped me so much at Uni and in general 'web life'.
Hopefully they will re open it at some point
It would have helped me so much at Uni and in general 'web life'.
Hopefully they will re open it at some point
Did it, in the last hour!
Got 100% in one attempt, i did feel the questions were much too easy except for the book one!
How did everyone do the book question at the end? I didnt really do it properly.
I found image search, esp dragging and sort by colour useful, how google works, and file type search. Intext seems useful as well as verifying by date. Ill probably forgwt a lot tho if i dont make use of it regularly
Got 100% in one attempt, i did feel the questions were much too easy except for the book one!
How did everyone do the book question at the end? I didnt really do it properly.
I found image search, esp dragging and sort by colour useful, how google works, and file type search. Intext seems useful as well as verifying by date. Ill probably forgwt a lot tho if i dont make use of it regularly
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Aww, this would have been very useful!!
It would have helped me so much at Uni and in general 'web life'.
Hopefully they will re open it at some point
The site says they will be reopening the site on 25th but only to do the course i.e. no exams - http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/
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Gah, I enrolled then completely forgot about it. the emails went to my junk folder .
.What was the book question? I did it last week so forget
something like
From where did the author of the book watch the race
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Ah I remember.
IIRC, it wasn't the author of the book but the author of the picture in the previous question which was in the book. When you searched for it within said book, it told you about it. Author of book was not the same as author of pic
IIRC, it wasn't the author of the book but the author of the picture in the previous question which was in the book. When you searched for it within said book, it told you about it. Author of book was not the same as author of pic
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Was expecting a discussion about a lack of layman advice when communicating online and people resorting to telling people to google instead of giving out offhand advice.