Heard Dan Russell from Google speak at the CCSC Eastern Conference two weeks ago.  Enjoyed his talk “What does it Mean to be Literate in the Age of Google?”.

A few tidbits …

1. 90% of people do not know that you can use Control and ‘F’ to find text on a web page.
2. Chrome can use regular expressions to search text within a page (requires plugin).  Note:  Guessing that 99.9% do know how to use regular expressions for any reason
3. Good user interface designs are intuitive (you shouldn’t need help to understand them)
4. The Mundaneum was a precursor to the Internet that captured data as a series of index cards.
5. Google Earth has historical photos.
6. For fun (and a good challenge) test your searching skills at the daily Google search challenge http://agoogleaday.com/