Minimalism - Online Income - ESL - Japan
There are a few things I’d like to ramble about this morning (2:30am!). The word “Half” – to allow it or not Mami and I were talking about what to tell Rikuto about the word, “half”. If you missed my post, Half-Japanese or Half-Blood?, this English word is used by Japanese people to describe someone who is only part Japanese. Foreigners despise this word because the English implications are not complete, impure, or even […]
In this fourth part of my Google Speed-Search series, we’ll take a look at stop words – words that Google ignores. What words does Google ignore? There doesn’t seem to be a public list of Google stop words available (although I did find this), but words like the, is, are, that, on, in and with are very likely to be ignored. Numbers and question words, too, seem to be considered as stop words. […]
This is the third part in my Google Speed-Search series. Here are the first two parts if you missed them: Google Speed-Search Lesson #1 – Phrase Searches Google Speed-Search Lesson #2 – Boolean Remove unwanted results with negation This lesson introduces negation, i.e. using a minus sign (-) to specify terms you don’t want to appear in your search results. This can be useful when your results are cluttered with unrelated websites. […]
In Google Speed-Search Lesson #1, I showed you how to do phrase searches. In this lesson, we’ll look at basic Boolean, i.e. using uppercase AND and OR in our searches. Let’s imagine you’re British and you want to find websites about Father Christmas, you might start with this: Father Christmas What you’re really telling Google is to search for any website that contains the words Father AND Christmas, not necessarily together, […]
When I was in Secondary school, my math teacher gave us a peculiar exercise for homework. She wanted us to memorize the alphabet backwards before the next lesson. Not surprisingly, when that lesson came, there were only two of us in the class who had actually made the effort to remember our ABCs in reverse order. Thanks to that teacher, I have since been able to fire through a dictionary from either […]
I’m sure most of you have googled your own name on the internet, and I’m no different. It’s no surprise to find someone else with the same name as you considering the billions of people on the planet, but in my case, the other Nick Ramsay is also British, and the same age as me! I take pride in my computer skills, so it’s a bit disappointing not to see my […]