Thing 8: Conducting an advanced search.

Ok, so when I started this Thing, I thought I knew some of the tricks already. I use www.google.com and google.com.cn already to find cool pictures like:

The first search term I started with was in google images and I searched for 'house'. The first thing that came up was:















So I refined my search term to 'australian house' and 'my house' finally finding something that looked more like home:











Then I decided to type '房子' (house) in and see what happened. At first I found these images:

Which is topical because I'm in the market for buying a house and am definitely feeling like the guy in the bottom pic! The house is yelling out to 'PAY IT BACK! PAY IT BACK!" :)


I realised I wasn't getting anything helpful using the term '房子' (house) so I changed to look at '公寓' (apartment's) and found lots of photos of cats!! After scrolling through the cats, I found the plans to an apartment in China. This would be great for a unit we do with our Year 12s...so I thought I would look for the same in Australia so that we could compare them.
Here's what I found:
Not only did I use different languages to change the results of my search, I also narrowed the search down using " " and by tweaking my search terms to find what I wanted.

I am off now to search Creative Commons. This is something I don't know much about. Yet.

下次见！