You get Oodles with Google!
Written: Aug 23 '01
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The Search Engine is great for finding websites fast, limited on other searches but well worth a try. Lots of features.
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Google is now one of the largest Search Engine’s on the Web. Claiming to host 1,387,529,000 pages at the time of writing this epinions review!
I have tried all the popular search Engines and this is currently my favorite, others I have tried include Altavista, Lycos, Fastsearch, Go, Northern Lights, NBCI, MSN, AOL and more... But this is my current favorite!
I have been using this Engine for about 2 years and always found it a useful resource.
If attractive, crowded pages are what you want from Search Engines then Google is not for you.
If you want Simple, uncluttered pages which find accurate results speedily then Google is probably for you.
Menu Structure
(1) Google Search
(2) I’m Feeling Lucky
(3) Google Web Directory http://directory.google.com/
(4) Google Groups http://groups.google.com/
(5) Google Advertising
(6) Cool Jobs http://www.google.com/jobs/
(7) Add Google http://www.google.com/services
(8) Advertise with us http://www.google.com/ads
(9) Google-Language http://www.google.com/language.html
(10) All About Google http://www.google.com/about.html
(11) Make Google your homepage
(12) Advanced http://www.google.com/advanced_search
(13) Preferences http://www.google.com/preferences
Google Search
The best way of writing this section was to do some searching! So I did!
Search Term Speed Relevancy
“Atlanta Falcons” 1 second 10/10
Books 1 second 10/10
Epinions 1 second 9/10
“Search Engines” 1 second 10/10
I never find the number of results too interesting, you can’t read them all! What is important to me is that results are found fast and that results displayed are accurate and don’t lead to dead links. Google delivers well in all these areas as the results above show. Post all your epinions review here too, Google accept them!
I’m Feeling Lucky
Type a Search term and click the I’m feeling lucky button and Google takes you straight to a relevant site. Can be fun but I don’t tend to use it much!
Google Web Directory
This simplifies Searching by grouping websites into categories, for your benefit I have listed the categories: -
Arts Movies, Music and Television
Business Industries, Finance and Jobs
Computers Internet, Hardware and Software
Games Board, Roleplaying and Video
Health Alternative, Fitness and Medicine
Home Consumers, Homeowners and Family
Kids and Teens Computers, Entertainment and School
News Media, Newspapers and Current Events
Recreation Food, Outdoors and Travel
Reference Education, Libraries and Maps
Regional Asian, Europe and North America
Science Biology, Psychology and Physics
Shopping Autos, Clothing and Gifts
Society Issues, People and Religion
Sports Basketball, Football and Soccer
Google Groups
Google Groups is a Usenet Archive Newsgroup service which used to be called Deja News, Google acquired this service earlier this year.
I estimate there are about 1500 Group subjects and probably about 7500 newsgroups in total.
There are groups on every conceivable subject!
The claim is that there are 650 million archived messages on the service.
There are two Search options on this page. Search Google Groups or Search the Web.
Groups are broken down on the page into the following headline categories, although there are thousands of others: -
ALT Any Topic
Biz Business Products, Services and Reviews
Comp Hardware, Software and Consumer Information
Humanities Fine Art, Literature and Philosophy
Misc Employment, Health & More
News Info, about Usenet & News
Rec Games, Hobbies and Sports
Sci Applied Science and Social Science
Soc Social Issues and Culture
Talk Current Issues & Debates
If you look hard enough there must be a group for you.
Google Advertising
Become a Premium Sponsor – Pay for highly targeted Advertising
Adwords - Pay for hits on specific search words
I am sure this would be effective for business people. If you are interested why not give Google a visit?
Also the add Google to your site option (discussed later) is promoted on this page.
Cool Jobs
Want a job at Google, well this is where they advertise them?
29 were advertised today whilst I was writing this epinion.
They are based in the San Francisco, Silicon Valley area.
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Press Center - Press Room, In the news, Press releases, Awards and Press Images
Corporate info - Overview, Executive team, Fact Sheet, Investor Info, Partners and Address
Add Google to your site
Add Google to your own Website for free, in a number of styles: -
Custom Websearch
Custom Sitesearch
Silver/Gold search
University Search
Free search
Buddy link to Google
Check them out if Search engine functionality on your Website interests you.
Google in Your Language
Google boasts an incredible selection of 56 Languages at the time of writing, here for the record is the full list: -
Afrikaans Albanian
Basque Bangla
Bulgarian Catalan
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Croatian Czech
Danish Dutch
English Esperanto
Estonian Finnish
French Galician
German Greek
Hindi Hungarian
Icelandic Indonesian
Interlingua Irish
Italian Japanese
Kannada Korean
Latin Lithuanian
Macedonian Malay
Malaylam Maltese
Marathi Nepali
Norwegian Polish
Portuguese Punjabi
Romanian Russian
Scottish – Gaelic
Serbian Spanish
Swahili Swedish
Tagalog Tamil
Teluga Turkish
Ukranian Vietnamese
Welsh
If that isn’t enough, try these joke languages: -
Bork Bork Bork
Elmer Fudd
Hacker
Pig Latin
All About Google
Contains a menu system detailing: -
Help and Search tips - Search basics, FAQ’s and Features
Other ways to Google – Restricts, Wireless, Toolbar/Buttons
Google Technology – Page Rank explained, Benefits of Google
Advertise with Google – Premium Sponsorship and Adwords
Add Google – As discussed earlier
Submit Your Site – How to add your URL (Website) to Google
Press Center – Press Releases, Articles and Awards
Corporate Info – Executives, Company profile and Address
Work @ Google – As discussed earlier
Picture Us – Logos, Google people at work and play
Wear us – Google clothes and merchandise?
Contact us – FAQ, Feedback, Links and the Google Newsletter
Make Google your homepage
Click this and Google becomes your homepage.
Advanced Search
Refine your search to find exactly what you want: -
Find results – “With all of the Words included”
Find results – “With the exact phrase”
Find results – “With any of the words”
Find results – “Without the words”
Language – Search in any of 26 Languages
Return Pages updated in last 3 months, last 6 months or the last year
Show occurrences anywhere on the page, in the page title or in the URL of the page
Search Domains only
Safesearch – Switch the Safe Filter on or off (explained later)
Images Search – look specifically for images
Page Specific – Find similar pages
Find pages that link to the page of your choice
Specific searches for Apple Macintosh users, Unix users, Linux users, US Government and universities
Preferences
This stores your preferences for each visit you make to Google, as long as you allow Cookies.
Select any of 56 languages as your default
Search for pages written in any of 26 languages
Select number of results to display (10, 20, 30, 50 or 100)
Results Window – open results in current window or a new window
Safesearch filtering
When SafeSearch is turned on, sites and web pages containing pornography and explicit sexual content are blocked from search results. Google strives to keep the filtering information as current and comprehensive as possible through continual crawling of the Web and by incorporating updates from user suggestions.
Click the Save button to store your preferences.
International URL’s
In have in addition noticed the following International URL’s are in use by Google: -
Canada http://www.google.ca
France http://www.google.fr
Germany http://www.google.de
Italy http://www.google.it
Switzerland http://www.google.ch
United Kingdom http://www.google.co.uk
Conclusion
Just about everything you could want from a Search engine, I strongly recommend any epinions user to check it out. Some key benefits are: -
User definable
Very fast results
Very accurate results
Many languages supported
Advanced search filters
Adult content filtering, good for families
Newsgroups service
Convenient Directory Structure
A little plain on the graphical front but I guess you can put up with that!
Recommended:
Yes
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About the Author
Member: Alan Horton
Location: Bradford, United Kingdom
Reviews written: 21
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