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feat: Add google spotlight
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+## What is Google?
+Google allows us smooth brained chumps to keep our jobs while looking like we know what we're doing.
+
+"What!?!?" I hear you say. That's right. Google can almost always give you the answers you're looking for and in this spotlight we'll show you how!
+
+"No! It cannot be! Surely such a tool cannot exist!" Yes, yes it can. And don't call me Shirley. :pray:
+
+## How do I use google?
+
+It's easy! Unbelievably easy. Alright, let's imagine you have a question, say "How do I create an array in java?". 
+
+Step 1. open <https://www.google.com/>
+
+Step 2. Take your question, and put it into the big search box.
+
+Step 3. Click search.
+
+Yup, google is just that good it can understand your question and give you relevant answers.
+
+That's all folks.
+
+🦗
+
+**But... I want to *really* know how to use google!**
+
+Alright alright. Pull your chair up close and I'll tell you the secrets big search don't want you to know! You didn't hear it from me though!
+
+## Toby's top tips for refining your queries:
+
+One of the most important things to know is that google uses various keyword and punctuation combinations as filter operators. Let's take a look at what they are, and how they affect your search results.
+
+### 1. The colon
+`site:` - Imagine you're looking for that one specific stack overflow post. You remember seeing it way back when you were just a wee little programming child typing on your keyboard with your index fingers only. We can use `site:` to filter our results to a specific website.
+
+Example: `site:stackoverflow.com html regex` - One of the top results here should be an infamous SO post on parsing HTML with regex. If you haven't read it take a look!
+
+`imagesize:` - Looking for that perfect desktop background or that perfectly sized stock photo of a well dressed individual posing at a computer to make your business seem more legitimate? use this to filter results to a specific image size
+
+Example: `imagesize:1920x1080 dogs` - enjoy the cute dogs
+
+`cache:` - If for some reason a website you want to visit is down, you might be able to view the content from google's cache.
+
+Example: `cache:https://stackoverflow.com/questions` - Now you need not panic when stackoverflow goes down and you need to centre that div with css!
+
+`filetype:` - If you're looking for a specific filetype, this is what you need!
+
+Example: `filetype:pdf On Computable Numbers` - PDF results for one of Alan Turing's papers.
+
+### 2. The dash
+`-` this little guy is a tricksy fellow. The echos of enraged Java programmers shattered through the lands as they searched `-xmx` and were given no results. As it turns out, using a dash will **exclude** the following word from the results
+
+Example: `-xmx` - will give you no results.
+
+### 3. Quotes
+`"` - When you make a search on google, if you put a word or phrase in quotes, google will look for an exact match. Useful if you're looking for a very specific error.
+
+Example: `"Fly, you fools"` 
+
+### 4. Range ..
+
+`..` - Do you remember reading an article or an event happening but can't recall the exact date? Want to search for a new phone within a price range? Putting two dots between two numbers will filter results.
+
+Example: `rgb mechanical keyboard $50..$150`
+
+## Google Scholar
+
+If you're looking for research papers for school/college/uni/fun then Google Scholar can be your best friend. Google scholar exclusively searches academic & scholarly work. These are the kind of results you'll be wanting to cite in your own essays/papers. The same kind of filters work here too!
+
+<https://scholar.google.com/>
+
+## Advanced Search
+Still stuck trying to find what you want? Try Google's Advanced Search page <https://www.google.com/advanced_search>
+This page is a slightly more UX friendly version of all the above filters and more!
+Image advanced search: <https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search>
+Book advanced search: <https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search>
+Video advanced search: <https://www.google.com/advanced_video_search>
+Scholar advanced search: <https://scholar.google.com/#d=gs_asd>
+
+## Here is a handy cheatsheet!
+
+https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/825348974164049920/829494747910504498/google-online-research-cheat-sheet.png