Search And Use Google As A Media Research Tool

Assembled below are carefully selected features and aspects of free services and tools offered by Google that can help media, communication, and entertainment professionals find and assemble useful information to reach their career or business goals. Google Friend Connect has been added above this caption. Log in for a new way to reach social interaction.

GOOGLE ALERTS

Email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. You can be alerted on any topic of your choice including keeping abreast of a certain industry, monitoring a developing news story, getting the latest on a celebrity or related entertainment industry event. Click here to select

GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH

Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them. Do a search on Google Book Search or on Google.com and when a book comes up whose content contains a match for your search terms, Google links to it in your search results. Click a book title and you'll see, like a card catalog entry, some basic information about the book. You may also see a few snippets of text from the book showing your search term in context. If the publisher or author has given Google permission through the Partner Program then you'll see a few full pages of text from the book, and if the book is out of copyright, you'll be able to page through the entire book. In all cases, you'll see links that lead directly to online bookstores where you can buy the book. The books in Google Book Search come primarily from two sources: publishers and libraries. Google Books Partner Program is an online book marketing program designed to help publishers and authors promote their books by showing you a limited number of pages – so naturally, if you are a published author you can benefit from this. Another source is the Google Books Library Project with a plan to include the collections of a few libraries in Google Book Search and, like a card catalog, show you information about the book and in some cases a few sentences of your search term in context. Google will show the full book when it is out of copyright. Click here to select

GOOGLE CALENDAR

You can see your networking contact's, agents, or business associates schedules right next to your own, and quickly add events mentioned in Gmail conversations or saved in other calendar applications, while adding other interesting events that you find online. You decide who can see your calendar and which details they can view. Booking a rehearsal, concert or gig, or other showcase event? You can create invitations, send reminders and keep track of RSVPs inside Google Calendar. Receive event reminders and notifications on your mobile phone. Share your organization's events with the world. Organizations can promote events, too. Click here to select

GOOGLE CATALOGS

Browse and/or search merchant-provided catalogs on your personal computer. Flip through catalogs to find what interests you, or simply type in what you're looking for and you'll find every place that your search term appears in the catalog. Categories to search and browse include (but not limited to) arts and entertainment; books, music and film; arts and crafts; apparel and accessories, and more. To purchase an item you must call the phone number displayed below the thumbnail image of the catalog's cover on the left side of the page. Google itself does not enable the purchasing of products. Click here to select

GOOGLE CO-OP TO CREATE SPECIALIZED SEARCH TOPICS

Know something special, and want to share it with others? Google Co-op is a platform which enables you to use your expertise to help other users find information. This is a work in progress and there are limited topics underway to add to. But you can expect to see evolution in both the Co-op's structure and the platform's features over time. Through co-op you can create specialized search for your Topic. You can specify web pages/sites that you consider authoritative for your topic, suggest appropriate query refinements, etc. You can either participate in one of the areas currently being developed by Google or create your own new topic. Google is currently developing a number of topics. As the quality of these topics improve, they will be made available to all users on www.google.com. Click here to select

GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH

Search for images of people as photographed by the mainstream media. Good at finding celebrities and people in the news photographed at various official functions. Click here to select

GOOGLE NEWS

Search and browse 4,500 news sources auto-generated continuously. Among categories included are "Business", "Entertainment", and "Most Popular". The service also provides news alerts, RSS and Atom feeds, mobile news, and a new news archive search feature. Click here to select

GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Broadly search for scholarly literature. You can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. For publishers and writers of scholarly papers, Google Scholar can boost the worldwide visibility of your content. Google works with scholarly publishers to index works from all research disciplines and make them searchable on Google Scholar. Learn more about Google's policies and find technical information for scholarly publishers and societies at: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/publishers.html. Click here to select

MUSIC SEARCH

Find information about artists, songs, albums and places to buy the music. If you enter the name of an artist popular in the U.S. into the search box, Google displays user reviews, song titles, stores to purchase the music and other useful information related to that artist at the top of the search results. Click here to select

GOOGLE MUSIC TRENDS

See what music is popular among Google Talk (an IM and chat feature) users. Provides a ranked listing of the week's songs, the artist, and any rank change. A "Discuss" link takes you to the Google Music Trends group which is an un-moderated forum for open discussion about the Google Music Trends product. Click here to select

PICASA PHOTO ORGANIZER

Software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa also provides advanced editing by putting one-click fixes and effects. Share your pictures by email, print photos, make gift CDs, share via Hello™, and post pictures on your blog. Click here to select

UNIVERSITY SEARCH

Enables you to search to a specific school website by selecting from an alphabetized directory listing of schools. Google offers hundreds of schools. Search for things like admissions information, course schedules, or alumni news. Search for drama and film programs of these schools and their alumni or faculty. Click here to select

GOOGLE VIDEO SEARCH AND UPLOAD

An open online video marketplace, where you can search for, watch and buy an expanding collection of TV shows, movies, movie trailers, music videos, documentaries, personal productions and more. Instantly share your video with the world. In addition to viewing free content, you can also purchase or rent premium content at the Google Video store using your Google Account. You can download much of this content and view it using the downloadable Google video player. Upload your video to Google Video for free at this link: http://video.google.com/videouploadform. An online can help with any technical questions. Click here to select