Two Truths and a Lie is a parlor game where each participant tells two truths and one lie about themselves, and then everyone in the group gets to guess which tidbit is the lie. On the Internet, however, it seems …[Continue]
Search Tips
How to Turn on Safe Search for Google, Bing, and Yahoo!
Safe search is a kid-friendly search filter that tells the search engines to remove explicit adult results. While they may let some content through that you find objectionable, they are a very good start. If you have multiple browsers on …[Continue]
Is Wikipedia Objective?
Can a crowd edited resource like Wikipedia be as objective as a professionally edited resource such as the Encyclopedia Britannica? Two professors recently set out to do just that, and found that the answer is: it depends. Feng Zhu of …[Continue]
3 Free Web Citation Tools
A bibliographic citation should supply sufficient details so that the item (book, movie, website, etc.) is uniquely identified. The most common citation styles are MLA (for the humanities), and APA style (for psychology). But many other styles exist, including CSE …[Continue]
How Google Tracks the Flu
Google Flu Trends tracks flu season internationally and down to the city. To drill down on the data, just click the map for your country, then your state. The city data is available on its own tab. It’s looking scary …[Continue]
How Search Engines Work
Here’s a quick overview on how search engines work, from Kids Discover. Click here to download this image in PDF, or click on the infographic below to see it in full size….[Continue]
Does Google Know What You Love?
What do you love? Google thinks it knows, and has launched a new search service by the same name. Searching for “cats” for example, will display results in a visual table format from multiple Google services, including YouTube, Google Maps, …[Continue]
Get Answers with Aardvark
Aardvark is a crowdsourcing platform for asking and answering questions, that was recently acquired by Google. When a question is received, Aardvark finds the perfect person to answer it by looking through your social connections, and others who have a …[Continue]
