- Google's search-results pages is based, in part, on a priority rank called a "PageRank".
- Provides many options for customized search, using Boolean operators.
- Google Search provides at least 22 special features beyond the original word-search capability.
- weather
- stock quotes
- time
- sports scoresunit conversion
- currency conversion
- calculator
- dictionary look-up
- maps
- movie show-times
- travel data/airports
- area code
- synonym search etc ...
- Special features for numbers, including ranges (70..73),prices, temperatures, money/unit conversions , calculations (5*2/4), package tracking, patents, area codes, and language translation of displayed pages.
- Google introduced "Google Voice Search" and "Search by Image" features for allowing the users to search words by speaking and by giving images.
- Google's homepage includes a button labeled "I'm Feeling Lucky". When a user types in a search and clicks on the button the user will be taken directly to the first search result, bypassing the search engine results page.
- On certain occasions, the logo on Google's webpage will change to a special version, known as a "Google Doodle". Clicking on the Doodle links to a string of Google search results about the topic.
- In addition to its tool for searching webpages, Google also provides services for searching images, Usenet newsgroups, news websites, videos, searching by locality, maps, and items for sale online.
Source : en.Wikipedia.org
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