Find it hard to keep up with latest Google search enhancements that may improve your information discovery? Try these links:

• Power Searching with Google, free online course
• Inside search search help, tips & tricks and more
• Check Google's official and unofficial blogs for new and recent Google search developments

When you search for things, people or places the 'Knowledge Graph' provides known facts on the right-hand side of the page e.g. try a seach for University of Queensland. The Google Blog says it is the first step in using the collective intelligence of the web and understands the world a bit more like people do.