Google Web Search Features In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you're looking for. Click the title of a specific feature to learn more about it.
| | • Book Search | Use Google to search the full text of books. |
| | • Cached Links | View a snapshot of each page as it looked when we indexed it. |
| | • Calculator | Use Google to evaluate mathematical expressions. |
| | • Currency Conversion | Easily perform any currency conversion. |
| | • Definitions | Use Google to get glossary definitions gathered from various online sources. |
| | • File Types | Search for non-HTML file formats including PDF documents and others. |
| | • Froogle | To find a product for sale online, use Froogle - Google's product search service. |
| | • Groups | See relevant postings from Google Groups in your regular web search results. |
| | • I'm Feeling Lucky | Bypass our results and go to the first web page returned for your query. |
| | • Images | See relevant images in your regular web search results. |
| | • Local Search | Search for local businesses and services in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. |
| | • Movies | Use Google to find reviews and showtimes for movies playing near you. |
| | • Music Search | Use Google to get quick access to a wide range of music information. |
| | • News Headlines | Enhances your search results with the latest related news stories. |
| | • PhoneBook | Look up U.S. street address and phone number information. |
| | • Q&A | Use Google to get quick answers to straightforward questions. |
| | • Refine Your Search - New! | Add instant info and topic-specific links to your search in order to focus and improve your results. |
| | • Results Prefetching | Makes searching in Firefox faster. |
| | • Search By Number | Use Google to access package tracking information, US patents, and a variety of online databases. |
| | • Similar Pages | Display pages that are related to a particular result. |
| | • Site Search | Restrict your search to a specific site. |
| | • Spell Checker | Offers alternative spelling for queries. |
| | • Stock Quotes | Use Google to get live stock quotes and information. |
| | • Street Maps | Use Google to find U.S. street maps. |
| | • Travel Information | Check the status of an airline flight in the U.S. or view airport delays and weather conditions. |
| | • Weather | Check the current weather conditions and forecast for any location in the U.S. |
| | • Web Page Translation | Provides you access to web pages in other languages. |
| | • Who Links To You? | Find pages that point to a specific URL. |
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 | Google is helping to get the world's information online by bringing books themselves online. Whenever books in our Google Book Search index contain content that matches your search terms, you'll see links to those books under Book Results at the top of your search results page. Click on any book title and you'll see the page in that book which contains your search terms, as well as other information about the title. Click one of the links under "Buy this Book" and you'll go straight to a bookstore selling that book online. |
Google takes a snapshot of each page examined as it crawls the web and caches these as a back-up in case the original page is unavailable. If you click on the "Cached" link, you will see the web page as it looked when we indexed it. The cached content is the content Google uses to judge whether this page is a relevant match for your query.
When the cached page is displayed, it will have a header at the top which serves as a reminder that this is not necessarily the most recent version of the page. Terms that match your query are highlighted on the cached version to make it easier for you to see why your page is relevant.
The "Cached" link will be missing for sites that have not been indexed, as well as for sites whose owners have requested we not cache their content.
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 | To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you'd like done into the search box and hit the Enter key or click on the Google Search button. The calculator can solve math problems involving basic arithmetic, more complicated math, units of measure and conversions, and physical constants. Try one of the sample expressions below, or refer to our complete instructions for help in building your own. |
These sample queries demonstrate the utility and power of this new feature:
To use our built-in currency converter, simply enter the conversion you'd like done into the Google search box and hit "Enter" or click the Google Search button
Here are some sample queries:
To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word "define," then a space, and then the word(s) you want defined. If Google has seen a definition for the word or phrase on the Web, it will retrieve that information and display it at the top of your search results.
You can also get a list of definitions by including the special operator "define:" with no space between it and the term you want defined. For example, the search [define:World Wide Web] will show you a list of definitions for "World Wide Web" gathered from various online sources. Google has expanded the number of non-HTML file types searched to 12 file formats. In addition to PDF documents, Google now searches Microsoft Office, PostScript, Corel WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and others. The new file types will simply appear in Google search results whenever they are relevant to the user query.
Google also offers the user the ability to "View as HTML", allowing users to examine the contents of these file formats even if the corresponding application is not installed. The "View as HTML" option also allows users to avoid viruses which are sometimes carried in certain file formats.
Overall, the additional file types provide Google users a wider view of the content available on the World Wide Web. And Google has plans to keep expanding the range of file types available over time.
For more information about this feature, please read the file type FAQ.
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If you prefer to see a particular set of results with a specific file type (for example, PDF links), simply type filetype:[extension] (for example, filetype:pdf) within the search box along with your search term(s).
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