At the suggestion of one of my reviewers, I’m posting this warning at the start of each Google article.
Look at any site with caution when using Google in particular or the Internet in general. Not all you might read is 100 percent accurate. Some might contain outdated information, some are on the web with unchecked facts, and some might just be urban legends meant to fool you. If in doubt, read more than one site on a particular subject or follow through the old fashioned way, by reading a book.
A Writer’s Tool: Google Part II
Everyone, sit up straight with feet together, and you, wearing the blue blouse, spit out your gum! We are here to go beyond the basic Google screen below.
http://www.google.com/
To the right of the home page search box are further areas we will be exploring. I’ll start with the bottom one since it’s a feature of Google that many of you from around the world might find helpful.
Language Tools
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
Écrivez-vous des mots étrangers dans vos histoires? If so, the following Google translation feature might come in handy for words, sentences, or even complete web pages. I’m just sorry there is no English-Latin translation for my forensic stories, but even Google isn’t perfect.
Go down beyond the translation feature, and you will discover ways to set up Google in your native language for your home page. You do this via the Preference tool, which we will be getting to next. You can even access Google in Norwegian, Spanish, or any other language in that list without setting it as your home page, just for the fun of exploring a different language.
The third section under
Language Tools is a list of the various countries, an image of your national flag, and another way to access Google in your native language. Why not make an Image of your national flag for your portfolio?
Preferences
http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en
Now we come to the second feature beside the home page search box. In addition to setting up Google in your own language, there are several other features with defaults.
You can block web pages containing explicit sexual content from appearing in search results. The three choices are:
Use strict filtering (Filter both explicit text and explicit images)
Use moderate filtering (Filter explicit images only - default behavior)
Do not filter my search results.
You also can tell Google how many web page links you want per page. Mine is set at the default of ten.
Be sure to pay attention to the following sentence at the bottom of the screen before clicking on the
Save Preference icon.
(Note: Setting preferences will not work if you have disabled cookies in your browser.)
Advanced Features
Since this is a complex section and filled with a wealth of great information, I’ll cover it in A Writer’s Tool: Google Part III. I hope that it will be worth your wait.
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