#Microblog Monday 585: Google Search Tricks

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I skip the AI summaries at the top of Google Search because they’ve been wrong the vast majority of the times I spot-check the information. It recently told me that Go Gentle by Maria Semple “explores themes relating to the Middle East, including the journey of an Israeli and a Palestinian toward peace.” I had Googled her name to see her Wikipedia page, and I was a little surprised because I was 65% of the way through her book and nothing about the conflict had come up. A quick search of the e-book told me it wouldn’t come up, and I can report that it didn’t come up. So… thanks, Google, for more wrong information.

But this post has a ton of Google tricks to get you to better information. I especially like the verbatim mode, which took me first to Maria Semple’s website and then her Wikipedia page. No incorrect AI summary to jump over at all. Passing it along in case it is helpful to you, too.

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