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Boost eLearning provides search training for organizations, so that employees can conduct efficient searches for their business research. Now, Boost eLearning has unveiled a new course featuring Google’s new search features.
The new course explores the new “show options” feature which allows searchers to filter their searches by time and type.
“A large percentage of enterprise employees use Google for business research,” said Victor D. Alhadeff, CEO of Boost eLearning. “Enterprises therefore gain significant benefits when they help employees learn a greater portion of Google’s powerful search features. With a few minutes of easy online training dramatically improving both search speed and accuracy, employees and employers both come out winners.”
With knowledge workers spending an average of 30 minutes searching, courses like this can help employees streamline their search activity and increase productivity. 40% of searches do not return a desired result, and learning these new features could help reduce that number.
If you’ll join me in crawling out of our connected lives for just a second, let’s remember that there are still parts of the world that still don’t have the internet. These areas more than any other are in dire need of answers that search can provide. Answers related to farming and entrepreneurship. Answers that could transform a community, improving its economics and health.
The New York Times featured a nonprofit organization called Question Box is determined to bring those answers to such communities. Founded by Rose Shuman, Question Box staffs calling centers who receive questions, via cell phone, from developing villages in Uganda. Though the internet remains slow and elusive, cell phones have taken hold in Africa.
Question Box got its start in India, where people have access to an actual box containing a phone. Question Box isn’t alone. Google launched a similar effort in Uganda through its foundation this past June.
