Just as the best way to learn how to ride a bicycle is to bicycle, the best way to learn how to search with Google is to search with Google. Try the examples on the Teen Cheat Sheet, work the following exercises, and click on the links (usually underlined) to see Google in action and to learn more about a topic.
 
Note: Since the web and Google's algorithms and features constantly evolve, your results may be different from those shown in the cheat sheet and in Google Guide.

1. Find the author and the poem that contains the following words: he will do as he do do. Enter those words in Google's search box. How can you instruct Google to search for those words in the order that you specified?
   
   
2. The search pet owners OR ownership statistics finds information for both pet owners and ownership. Your social studies teacher wants you to compare what the United States exports to Spain, and imports from Spain. Specify a single query that will find both imports to and exports from Spain.
   
   
3. In response to the query iPod extend battery life site:apple.com, Google finds information on how to extend your iPod battery life from Apple's website. How would you find a timeline of the branch of science called physics by the American Physical Society, at aps.org?
   
   
4. Find two .org sites that talk about women in science. Now, find two noncommercial sites, i.e., sites whose domain name don't end with .com, that are about women in science.
   
   
5. In response to the query ice cream 98115, Google gives you where you can find ice cream near Seattle, WA, whose zip code is 98115. Find pizza places near where you live. Which one do you like the best?
   
   
6. Find a cinema showing a recently released film that you wish to see.
   
   
7. In response to the query define:deipnosophist, Google gives you definitions of deipnosophist. Find a definition of callipygian.
   
   
8. Find a definition of inaugurated on the web.
   
   
9. Find the year that laptops were invented by using the query laptops invented 1900..2000.
   
   You have been assigned a report on former President Bill Clinton. What year was he inaugurated?
   
   
10. Using Google, to write a multiplication problem you use a * to represent what you write as x. Therefore, 3x5=15 would be written as 3*5=15 in Google.
    
    Which is larger 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 * 8 * 9 * 10 (also written as 10! and spoken as "10 factorial") or 9*9*9*9*9*9*9, which can be more succinctly represented as 9^7 or 9**7?
    
    
11. Calculate 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit into Celsius.
    
    
12. What can people find out about you on the Internet? Search for your own name and see what you find.
    
    Search for your home address in Google. Let your parents know if you found a listing. If your parents wish to remove the listing from Google's PhoneBook, complete the name removal form, which you can find online at www.google.com/help/pbremoval.html or by searching for remove phone number Google.
    
    

  For tips, tricks, and more, visit www.googleguide.com/example_ref.html & Google Guide
  Please show this Google cheat sheet to your librarian and others who use Google regularly.
  By Nancy Blachman & Tasha Bergson-Michelson, who don't work for Google. March 2008