Sharpen your research skills and strengthen your use of Google search techniques — register now for Google's free 2-week Advanced Power Searching course.

It begins January 23rd, and lasts 2 weeks; it's a follow-up to their original Power Searching With Google course.

The syllabus for the two-week course includes two assignments and these twelve challenges:

• Challenge 1 - Mimicking presidential voices
• Challenge 2 - Turtle fossils
• Challenge 3 - Festival challenge
• Challenge 4 - Humongous fungus
• Challenge 5 - Salman Khan
• Challenge 6 - Scrapbook enthusiast
• Challenge 7 - Mystery music
• Challenge 8 - Climate graph
• Challenge 9 - Name that notebook
• Challenge 10 - Who done it?
• Challenge 11 - Feather identification
• Challenge 12 - Where in the world?

During the course you'll ...

• Take your search strategies to a new level with sophisticated, independent search challenges.
• Join a community of Advanced Searchers working together to solve search challenges.
• Pose questions to Google search experts live in Hangouts and through a course forum.
• Receive an Advanced Power Searching certificate upon completion.

Hat tip to Lifehacker
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