Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Word order in Google searches

There is a great SHORT video on the importance of word order in Google searches. The demo searches and explanations are pretty fast, so students might have a hard time grasping it in the classroom, but it could be used for a quick Google lesson. He points out that Google looks for "bigrams," pairs of words in a particular order, and if there are multiple words in a search, results will emphasize the most common bigram. Check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcUuNORncN0