20 Feature Google
It’s surprising how many useful features are tucked into such a simplistically elegant interface as Google’s. Making the most out of Google is as much about knowing the nuances of this interface as it is about mastering Google’s query operators:
1. I’m Feeling Lucky: Takes you directly to the first search result
2. Images: Takes you directly to a search results page of Google Images, featuring relevant photos and illustrations
3. Groups: Takes you directly to a search results page of Google Groups, featuring relevant Usenet newsgroup posts
4. News: Takes you directly to a search results page of Google News, featuring relevant news articles
5. Froogle: Takes you directly to a search results page of Froogle, featuring relevant products from online catalogs
6. More Google services and tools: Offers access to Google’s many other sites, such as Google Answers, Google Labs, Google Directory, etc.
7. Advanced Search: In case you don’t remember all the search operators from Parts 1 and 2 and you want to do advanced searching
8. Preferences: Change the number of search results displayed per page
9. SafeSearch filtering: Turn this feature on from within the Preferences page
10. Spelling corrections: Google automatically suggests more popular/likely spellings
11. Cached: A previously archived version of the Web page listed in the Google search results
12. Indented results: Results from the same site are grouped together (two is the maximum displayed per page)
13. More Results: Additional matches from the same site
14. View as HTML: Text extract of a non-HTML document, viewable within your Web browser
15. Translate This Page: Machine translation of a foreign language document into English
16. Date: Displayed if the search result has been freshly indexed within the last day or two
17. Similar Pages: Documents that Google considers to be related to that document
18. Search Within Results: Your subsequent query will be applied only to the current set of search results
19. Search term definitions: Definitions of each word in your query, according to Dictionary.com
20. Sponsored links: Advertisers bid to be positioned here, and pay per click.
You’ve seen the Google home page many times before. But have you ever been properly introduced? Please allow me to do the honors. The numbers in the red circles correspond to the interface features listed in the table above.
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