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I'm growing some beans... ... in my garden, and I'm slightly amazed at how they grow.  If you've somehow never seen the way a bean or a pea plant grows, it's truly remarkable.  You put them in the ground, and after not very long, they lo...

We'll always remember Bruddah Iz, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole,  for singing what has effectively become a touchstone of ukulele performance... Bruddah  IZ,  from the Google Doodle in his honorHis version of Somewh...

I had trouble using double quotes in my search... ... or, more precisely, it was when I switched OUT of Google to another search application that caused the problems.  I'd searched for a particular lyric (one I've used before) "When Venu...

This week's Google Doodle is about Bruddah Iz, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, Bruddah  IZ,  from the Google Doodle in his honor...showing his life in a quick, beautiful video with his most famous song (Somewhere Over the Rainbow) playing in...

Ay yi yi yi yi!   This week's Challenge was to find any:         extramusical sounds and yells that happen during a performance.  For examples, gritos are common in mariachi&nbs...

"That's crazy!  How did I not know that??"That was the reaction I got from a friend when I switched into Google Maps 3D mode.  If you've seen it before, it's all very straightforward and obvious, but as I learned from my friend, not everyone ...

As you know, I love music... ... that's not a surprise.  What might be a surprise is that I used to NOT understand why some people would make noises while the musical performance is going on.  I don't mean babies crying (t...

As soon as I clicked "Publish" I realized I'd forgotten to... ... add in some of the good stuff in my notes file.  IN PARTICULAR... If you recall, a big part of the point of this week's Challenge was to find similarities between COVID an...

Archival newspapers are a great resource... ... if you can find them... AND if you can understand them.  I have to admit that I spent a  LOT of time on this Challenge.  It was just a fascinating bit of research.  The more ...

The most undervalued resource on the internet... ... is probably the archive of newspapers.  Reading through old news is incredibly illuminating of our own time.  You can, in many cases, see the Future Through the Past. As some...

This one was pure fun... Names (for things, people, places, songs, continents, concepts) are important!  The Challenge for this week was to identify a few names that might not be what you think!  These weren't especially d...

In a recent article for the New York Times, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz published a fascinating story (Google Searches Can Help Us Find Emerging Covid-19 Outbreaks) about using Google Trends to find coronavirus outbreaks in other countries, as well a...

Names aren't as simple as you'd think... As we know, having the right name for something can be very important in doing your online research. (We've talked about this before: terms, part names, geo and bio names. We'll probably talk about it in th...

As you might recall... I put out a short video, a One-Minute Morceau (aka 1MM) on my Search Education YouTube channel this week. Each is a short video between 1 and 5 minutes long with a brief SRS strategy or tactic for you. &n...

Complex questions... ... abound in these days of COVID-19 / coronavirus.  P/C CDC.govhttps://www.cdc.gov/This week's Challenge was: 1.  During the past 2 weeks, what SearchResearch Challenges have you confronted about COVI...