Using google search to find everything.

Well because I use Google to search everything I was able to find this image very easy. After looking at letter I picked key things like the date and proper names and what I thought the image was when I entered in the search “1939 letter about daughters of American revolution” it was the first thing that popped up in the list so this was very easy to find. This is the URL to the page: http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/tmirhfee.html

The second image I had the hardest of them all to find I searched word strings of everything on the picture from arrests amount per state to AP background map of arrests from April to December but I could find nothing I spent 30 minutes trying to find word strings that would work but nothing came up. Then a light came on to just search images so I went to Google images and typed in exactly what it was “arrest background map AP” and it was the 5^th image down.  This is the URL:

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=1525&bih=716&tbm=isch&tbnid=AMvYzbudZkkE0M:&imgrefurl=http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr071.html&docid=qRbhjL9GpxhRxM&imgurl=http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/s84.6p1.jpg&w=640&h=612&ei=DD77T86rJvLE2QXRz7SDBw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=187&vpy=322&dur=4607&hovh=220&hovw=230&tx=127&ty=91&sig=117167606935282526599&page=1&tbnh=161&tbnw=168&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0,i:92

Again the third image was very easy I again looked at image and picked out key things I could see. I typed in “1955 police report in Montgomery j.f. Blake” and again it was the first link that popped up. It looked like I was batting 66% on with what my thought process was telling me in how to search the images. After that I was able to see a pattern to the images but to stay with just looking up images themselves. This is the URL to the third is: http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/rosaparks/0/inquiry/intro/

Now the last image I thought I typed into the search which was “roll call 1964 88th congress January” but that didn’t come up with the image in at least the first 4 links so I then added “290-130” to the search I already had and that gave it to me. The URL is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CivilRightsAct1964-HouseRollCall-HR7152.jpg

So in all the only one that took me more than 1 minute to find was the map and that I had to just change my thinking from thinking that I could only find it by finding the page that it was on to just finding the image itself. I feel I had a good plan on how I search things but I did learn to broaden my searches just a little more.

I have tried using other search engines in the past but I found that a lot of things pop up that I just don’t want to see. I feel that Google weeds a lot of the “bad” sites out. I really like for myself and my kids, so I just stay with Google.