Building Research Tools with Google For Dummies
Chapter One
Googling the World
In This Chapter
* Searching with Google
* Searching with a number
* Using Google shortcuts
* The parts of Google
* Downloading and using the Google Toolbar
How do you easily find information about anything (or anyone)? You
"google" it (or them) using Google's Web search. For many (if not most)
people, the Google Web search engine is the information gateway to the Web
(and the world).
You probably know that it's easy to enter almost any words or names in the
Google Web search engine and get useful search results back. But you may
not know that you can also enter many specialized numbers into Google's
Web search box - such as shipment tracking numbers, product codes, and
more - and get useful results. In this chapter, I tell you about some of the specialized
information you can request from Google, how to use Google shortcuts
to get information about stocks and travel, and how to use Google's wonderful
"secret" calculator.
Google is the world's biggest one-stop shopping mall for finding information
on the Web. Most likely, you already know about - and have used - Google's
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