Chapter 1. Searching the Web
Searching the Web
How Google searches the Web
Using Keywords
The Search Result Page
Using the I’m Feeling Lucky Button
Getting the Right Pages
Setting Search Preferences
Web searching has become a part of the day-to-day life of any person who has a computer. Searches vary from words, phrases, products, people, images, and many other forms. Today, when you want to know something you simply do a Web search. There are many search engines but none, according to searchengineshowdown.com, quite as large due to Google’s inclusion of file types such as PDF, DOC and PS, not indexed by other search engines. What makes Google so powerful is not just the sheer number of files it has indexed, but the tools that make arriving at the answer to your question simple and straightforward.
This chapter helps you learn to better form your queries and introduce you to the basic Google search. Even the basic Google search is powerful and gives you an amazing amount of control over how you view your results and how to best focus your search so that you arrive quickly and easily at the results you seek.
Forming the Basic Query
The most basic Google search is performed by navigating to the Google home page at www.google.com, typing a search term into the Google Search box (shown in Figure 1.1), and pressing Enter. Before you can say Google, your results appear for you to peruse.
Figure 1.1. Type a search term and press Enter to find out ...
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