GEEK BRIEF 010609

Good morning-- Here is this week's GEEK BRIEF.

GOOGLE NEVER STOPS RE-INVENTING ITSELF.

Google has made it a little easier to refine image searches. Until now, if you entered a search term in Google Images you would get all kinds of images:photographs, drawings, paintings, and clip art. Now you can refine those results by selecting "faces," "clip art," "line drawings," "photo content," or "news content" from a drop down menu or select the type menu.




I know that personally, this will be a help to me as there are times when I want a certain type of image, and would prefer not to have to look through everything else.

Applications for Education
Google calls the new image search options "search-by-style", I call it just plain helpful. Any tool that can help students focus their searches is useful in my book. Less time struggling to find appropriate search results can translate into more time spent thinking, writing, and creating.

Check it out!!