Google Demystified Part II

Search Features : 

Search Features Everyday Essentials Weather Stock quotes Time Sports Scores

Search Features : 

Search Features Reference Tools Calculator Book Search Earthquakes Unit Conversion Public Data People’s Profile

Search Features : 

Search Features Choosing Keywords Synonym Search Dictionary Definitions Spell Checker

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Search Features Local Search Movie Showtime Trip Planning Airline Travel Info Currency Conversion Maps Local Search

Search Features : 

Search Features Plus (+) Operator Related Search Fill in the Blank Package Tracking Patent Numbers Area Code Search by Number Query Refinements

SREP : 

SREP Search Engine Results Page(s). The page or pages that are displayed after entering a query into a search engine.

Search Tips : 

Search Tips Tips: Sometimes Google displays a tip in a box just below the statistics bar.

Advanced Search : 

Advanced Search

Links Included with Your Results : 

Links Included with Your Results Google may include links to the following types of information above or along side your results. A Spelling Correction (suggestion) Dictionary Definitions Cached Pages Similar Pages News Headlines Product Search File-Type Conversion A Translation Book results The shortcut links that often appear to the left of an icon are known as OneBox results.

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Not sure how to spell something? Don’t worry, try gessing or speling any way you can. Google engineer Noam Shazeer developed a spelling correction (suggestion) system based on what other users have entered. The system automatically checks whether you are using the most common spelling of each word in your query. Spelling Corrections and Suggestions

Spelling suggestions : 

Spelling suggestions Notice that Google suggests the correct spelling if you fail to type “nokia” correctly Spell checker

Dictionary Definitions : 

Dictionary Definitions Want a definition for your search terms? Google is able to find definitions for acronyms, colloquialisms, and slang, as well as words that you would expect to find in a dictionary. If it finds any definitions, it includes a definition link in the statistics bar If Google doesn’t find a definition for a term, try using Google Glossary. Link to Dictionary definition

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Google takes a snapshot of each page it examines and caches (stores) that version as a back-up. cache: search operator This is useful if the original page is unavailable because of: Internet congestion A down, overloaded, or just slow website The owner’s recently removing the page from the Web Cached Pages

Cached pages : 

Cached pages Click on the Cached link to view Google’s cached version of the page with the query terms highlighted. The cached version also indicates terms that appear only on links pointing to the page and not on the page itself.

Similar Pages : 

Similar Pages Here’s how to find results similar to another Google search result. Let’s say you’re interested in finding sites similar to that of Consumer Reports. First, search for their site. Click on the Similar pages link that appears on the bottom line for the Consumer Reports result.

Similar Pageshow it works? : 

Similar Pageshow it works? How does Google find similar pages? By finding other sites listed on pages that link to the specified page. related: search operator

News Headlines : 

When Google finds current news relating to your query, Google includes up to three headlines that link to news stories above your search results News Headlines For more news stories or to browse the latest headlines, visit Google News Search at news.google.com

Product Search : 

Product Search When Google finds products relevant to your query, above your search results, you may find up to three links to items that merchants list in Google’s Product Search service. Product Search is also called Shopping. There are two Shopping links near the top of the screen shot above.

File-type conversion : 

Google converts all file types it searches to either HTML or text (unless, of course, they already are in one of these formats). File-type conversion filetype: search operator

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Translation : 

Translation More and more web pages are available in languages other than English. Your results may include a “Translate this page” link when a results page is written in a language different from your interface language

Language Tools : 

Language Tools Google’s Language Tools overcome language barriers. Click on the “Language Tools” link to the right of the search box on Google’s home page, Visit www.google.com/language_tools, or select the Language Tools menu option in the Google Toolbar to Search for pages written in specific languages

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Global Preferences(changes apply to all Google services) Interface Language Search Language Safe Search Filtering Number of Result Results Window Query Suggestions Customizing your results

Languages : 

Languages Google is available in many languages (around 144) and has been localized for many countries.

Error messages : 

Error messages Some searches will give a 403 Forbidden error with the text "We're sorry... ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. …… The screen was first reported in 2005, and was a response to the heavy use of Google by search engine optimization companies to check on ranks of sites they were optimizing. The message may also be triggered by high volumes of different searches from a single IP address. Google apparently uses the Google cookie as part of its determination of refusing service.

Query expansion : 

Query expansion Google applies query expansion to the submitted search query, transforming it into the query that will actually be used to retrieve results. As with page ranking, the exact details of the algorithm Google uses are deliberately obscure, but certainly the following transformations are among those that occur: Term reordering: in information retrieval this is a standard technique to reduce the work involved in retrieving results. This transformation is invisible to the user, since the results ordering uses the original query order to determine relevance. Stemming is used to increase search quality by keeping small syntactic variants of search terms. There is a limited facility to fix possible misspellings in queries.

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Google Image Search

Search Images : 

Search Images Click a Search Result. Information About the Image the thumbnail of the image, the size of the image in pixels and kilobytes, the URL of the web page on which the image is found, Copyright information about the image. View the Image on Its Original Page See the Full-Size Image Click the See full-size image link located at the top of the image page. It launch the image in its original size in a browser window.

Focussing Image Search : 

Focussing Image Search You can focus your search when it finds too many images. Restrict your results to images by clicking on either large, medium, or small

Advanced Image Search : 

Advanced Image Search Advanced Image Search, which is menu driven lets you specify images which are free to use for personal or commercial purposes. This makes it super easy to find great images for projects of all types. Features Of Advanced Image Search Content types: Return images that contain any content news content faces photo content clip art line drawings.

Advanced Image Search-Options : 

Advanced Image Search-Options Size: Return images that are any size, large, Icon, so on. Exact size: Return images of exact size. Aspect ratio: Return images with an aspect ratio. Coloration : Return only images in any color, black and white, full color. Domain: Return images from the site or domain. Usage Rights: Return images that are,.

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Contd.. Safe Search No filtering Use moderate filtering Use strict filtering.

SafeSearch Filtering : 

SafeSearch Filtering Many users prefer not to have adult sites included in search results. Google’s SafeSearch screens for sites that contain explicit sexual content and deletes them from your search results. SafeSearch No filtering Use moderate filtering Use strict filtering.

Filtering : 

Filtering No filtering: It turns off SafeSearch filtering completely. Moderate Filtering: It excludes most explicit images from Google Image search results but doesn’t filter ordinary web search results. This is your default SafeSearch setting. Strict filtering: It applies SafeSearch filtering to all your search results including the image search and ordinary web search.

Result’s Page : 

Result’s Page Query Suggestions To enable query suggestions display in the search box. Result Window Open search results in a new browser window. Number of Results Google allows user to set the number of results to be displayed in a page. Google's default (10 results) provides the fastest results. Can also set 20,30,50,100 results in a page.

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Show/Hide Options Refines your search with most relevant result. Offers quick access to existing tools.

Sponsored Links : 

Sponsored Links Ads appears relevant to the search. Sponsored links are clearly identified and kept separate from search results. At most, three sponsored links appear above Google’s search results. You can distinguish ads by their format and the label “Sponsored Link.” It contains a title, a short description, and a web address (URL).

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Relevant Ads for Image search Relevant Ads in Image Search

Image Results : 

Image Results When users search for queries such as sunsets, mountains, on the Google homepage, thumbnail images appears at the top of their search results marked Image Results. Users may also click on the “Image Results” link to see the complete Google Image Search results page for that query. Image Results for web search

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Top frame Link to get to the bottom frame Result’s Page

How it Works? : 

How it Works? Google has a bot which spiders the web for content, which it then includes in the index. For image results, Google uses a different bot, which indexes only image results. The key difference between the two is that the image bot visits much less frequently. While Googlebot may visit every week, Googlebot-image may only visit your site every 6 months. Getting images indexed is a very slow process.

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Image Labeler Google Image Labeler is a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images and help improve the quality of Google's image search. Fun game

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Google Image Search on my mobile phone Simply access your mobile web browser and enter http:www.google.com/xhtml as the URL. Google mobile home page appears, where you can choose to do either an ordinary web search, local search, or an image search. Starting from Google.com in the mobile browser, click "Images" in the top navigation, then fill in your search term. Google will return thumbnail images in the results page; between eight and fourteen.

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Google Vs Bing 1/3 In Bing, the Show similar Images option below every image on hovering works like a charm. Options like: sort by Size, Layout, Color, Style, People appears to be more efficient. Added features

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Bing offers 4 Image viewing options: Zoom Small, Medium, Large and Show Image details. Google Vs Bing 2/3

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Shows similar images Google Vs Bing 3/3

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Enlarge images in Google images Googleenlarge is a Greasemonkey script to see enlarged previews for the images which you see in google image search. But it is Compatible with FireFox Only

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Google Maps

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Features My maps Get directions Print Send Link

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Create New map: We can create personalized, annotated, customized maps. Once map was created we able to share with our friends. We can able to add photo ,videos, write commands about the map. Finding Our Maps: Go to Google Maps. Make sure you are signed in. Click My Maps. A list of your maps appears. Click the appropriate map to view it. Search the Place You want to find and click the option add to Save to my map Contd..

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Deleting your maps : Click My Maps. A list of your maps appears. Click Delete beside the appropriate map You can only delete your maps, not others Using additional content : Overlay information such as photos, weather, and public transit maps Choose from tools created by Google and other developers, such as real estate search and hotel bookings Contd..

My Maps : 

My Maps

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Get Directions We can able get the route from a particular place to other place . It will show the Shortest route between the two places We can avoid Highway and Toll gate between the two places We can able to get distance between two places and time to required to travel Between the spot We able to get distance either in Km or in miles

Suggested Routes : 

Suggested Routes

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PRINT We can take the print of Text or Map or Large map Text

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Text

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Map

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Large Map

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Mail your map

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Get the Link

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Embedding Map In Our Website

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Customizing

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MAP VIEW Map Satellite Terrain

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Map View

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Satellite View

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Terrain View

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Special View Street View View the street in 360° Street View was launched in the United States on May 25, 2007 It is available only in the following country Australia France Italy Japan  Netherlands New Zealand Spain  Taiwan United Kingdom United States

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Dodeca 2360(Immersive Media) : Dodecahedron (12-sided) shape

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Vehicle Used

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Street View

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More Options Photo : We can add Photo Wiki : It Gives the Information about the place

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Google Maps API 1/2 Google Maps JavaScript API lets you embed Google Maps in your web pages. Browser Supports IE 6+ Fire fox 2.0+ Safari 3.1+ Google Chrome

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Supports UTF-8 Encoding Use standards-compliant XHTML on pages that contain maps Maps API is a free service Over 150,000 websites use Google Maps Google Maps API for Flash Ability to mix Flash content with Google Maps Google Maps API 2/2