I am glad that Google and Facebook really give such opportunities.
I use different methods. With Googlemaps, you can use the easiest in all parts of the planet.
Today read the news from Somalia. I decided to see what kind of city Hargeisa. A Google machine didn’t go in there, you can’t “walk down the street.” But you can look at his map. Yes, the city is big. I see there is a small park.
The second way of travel requires that Google-car already passed. Then you can see for example this picture on the wall in the city of Detroit.
Yes, I once liked to “ride through the computer” in Detroit. there are very interesting and unusual road junctions.
The third way to travel requires Facebook.
Sometimes I meet people from other countries (Actually, I’m not a very sociable person; but I meet someone once a year). As a rule, I choose no officials - these people post natural photos. They are not trying to do something over; and it is very beautiful.
Although I do not get acquainted with the “official people”, but it all begins with them … Now I will show you. Oh, by the way, it seems that they wrote to me here from a small town in England.
- Long start. But in one of the posts this person mentioned “Balmoral Castle”. Find it in Google and set the location.
You need to use the English Wikipedia - this resource is checked by dozens of people, so it is more objective. And so the location, “Aberdeenshire” - it does not say anything to me. And should not say - this “word” is part of the search code.
2.In the morning on Facebook, I saw the news about “a cat on the show Dior.” And it was a popular news.
(sorry, I’m working fast right now - it may turn out crooked). So our search code: “Cat Dior Aberdeenshire”.
Google has an excellent artificial intelligence. But my task now is to bypass it, and get a chaotic set. I often use Google, and he knows me - in such situations I don’t need it. In such situations, I use a mixture: duckduckgo.com, Google and Yahhu. Sometimes I insert additional words, such as “news”.
The results can be shocking. It is strictly necessary to remember that “shock” is the task of a journalist. Therefore, it is impossible to read into every word and sentence!
So I find: “the fight of teenagers” and “cruel treatment of animals.”
3.The main thing to check the location - news sites should be either Britain or Scotland.
We will translate the sites, and see which of the officials commented on the situation.
And so, looking at 5 shocking news, it turns out that the official comment was only in 2 cases (it means “shock” was only 2/5 - I wrote above that you shouldn’t take the press literally - they either deal with the rest of the questions or were not relevant) . And found officials:
- Superintendent Mike Flynn;
- spokesperson for Aberdeenshire;
(we also remember a fight in some academy)
Add to these requests “facebook”.
- Find the “Aberdeenshire Council” and “Scottish SPCA”.
We look through their records and comments to them. We are not very interested in the content - I am interested in something introvertive.
For this, I unwind the tape at least 2-4 days ago, and am looking for short comments that do not have a “like”. From each page I open 5 links - 4 unpopular comments, and 1 popular. And this needs to be done so many times.
So you can see the real issues of the city. You can make a couple of conversations if the person wants it. And the abstract point on the map is starting to have its face for you.
Today I did not succeed. But I described it as an example of a search for other users. It took me 3 hours, and so far I have only found 2 official pages of this city. When I “studied” like this, some countries took months to find people actively sharing open information.