Thursday, October 25, 2012

I'm Googling Right Now.

             It is crazy how often people use Google, any question any one can ever think of can be answered through using Google. It is even a very now, but it is hard to try and cut down the string, to find what you are looking for faster. This is how you make a sting to find what you are looking for.Its pretty simple, all you have to do is find a good combination of words that are unique to what you are searching for.

                For the first image I searched, I typed in “I have never been a very useful member of the daughters of America”, and the first link things that popped up was Eleanor Roosevelt: Resignation from the Daughters of American Revolution, which did pull up the same letter, but it did not look like the picture I was looking for, so I then went to Google images, and wouldn’t you know it, Stellar Dreamer's was the very first picture to pop up from her blog. So I went back to Google, and tried "Eleanor Roosevelt unedited", but I didn’t really come up with anything with that. So I tried "Eleanor Roosevelt 1939", and there it was at the top of the page Exhibit: Eleanor Roosevelt Letter , this website was definatly the most credible source, no offense to Stellar, but this was a .gov, which means it is a credible source.


         
            For the next image I tried, "Background map", which was a complete failure, both for the regular Google search and also the Google images. Then I tried "America southeast background map arrested jailed and released", that didn’t work either. Then I tried "background map 9 arrested (may 17) and released Birmingham Alabama", that didn’t work either, I started to get frustrated. I finally found it when I typed in " Background map 306 jailed Jackson", the first two links were from Stellar Dreamer's blog, but the third one down was Virginia Memory: Freedom Rides Map. 1961. This page does seem credible, even though it is a .com, because under the “about us” section of the page it explains all about the establishment of the library, and what they have, and what they do.

           For the third image the first string I tried was "Police department of Montgomery j.f. flake", and the first two links that popped up again were Stellar Dreamer’s blog posts. So I went back to the drawing board. Then I tried "j.f. flake 12-1-55 in front of empire theater", and of course that did not work.  So I tried "montgomery police department 12-1-55 in front of empire theater", and that worked, I found Historical Thinking Matters which was the first link on the page. This page seems credible enough because it looks like it is a website for high school student to work with their teachers to understand historical thinking.

       
        For the last image I tried "roll call 88 congress house of representatives civil rights 1964", that did bring me to a Wikipedia page that contained the image I was looking for, but that was not good enough. So I tried  "house feb 1 0 1964", and I ended up finding it,  it was the third link from the top, HR 7152, which is an archived image. I do think this sight is credible because it is a .gov cite.

Well there you go, that is how you find what your looking for using key words to make a string for Google.
-zombiegirl

2 comments:

  1. way to kill it bro!!! I'm thouroughly impressed. I wish I could have kept up better but just ran out of time with all my other classes. NO EXCUSES though, you did great and deserve congratulations on being the first person to reach the fabled "A" territory. I offer my concession to your victory ;-)

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