Google It... (Talk)

Google. I doubt seriously if I have to explain it. It’s become a part of our culture like no other. I really suspect that it’s more pervasive than Microsoft. Google, after all, is pretty much platform non-specific.

So I faced a real problem here- where do I post this little tidbit? It’s not really news, so I can’t post it to Tech News Watch. It isn’t not really anything. Or more properly, it fits in so many categories that reposting it that many times would be a chore!

So I figured to make it an item in Windows Fanatics in the hope that it will reach the maximum number of people. Oh, it'll spread around our newsletters, I'm sure, but I'll start here.

Okay. You know what Google is. Do you know what it does? Really? Reaad on!

Google Web Search Features In addition to providing easy access to more than 4 billion 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.

• Cached Links View a snapshot of each page as it looked when we indexed it.

• Calculator Use Google to evaluate mathematical expressions.

• 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.

• I'm Feeling Lucky Bypass our results and go to the first web page returned for your query.

• Local Search - New! Search for local businesses and services in the U.S. and Canada.

• News Headlines Enhances your search results with the latest related news stories.

• PhoneBook Look up U.S. street address and phone number information.

• Search By Number Use Google to access package tracking information, US patents, and a variety of online databases.


• Street Maps Use Google to find U.S. street maps.



• Web Page Translation Provides English speakers access to a variety of non-English web pages.

• Who Links To You? Find all the pages that point to a specific URL.

Oh, that's not ALL of them. But it shows you just how far afield Google has gone from a 'simple' search!