This page describes:
- What makes Google great
- Google’s Mission and Philosophy
- The types of information you can find with Google’s search engine
1. What Makes Google Great?
Here are reasons why Google has many users and why those users frequently search using Google.
- Google Searches Billions of URLs
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- Google crawls and indexes many web pages, thus increasing the likelihood of its returning what you’re seeking.
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Google Returns Relevant Results
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- It tends to be good at selecting links that closely match your search query.
- What you want is usually near the top.
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Google Identifies Ads and Sponsored Links
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- It doesn’t sell placement of search results.
- Sponsored links and ads are clearly marked and kept separate from search results.
- Ads relate to content and aren’t distracting.
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Google is Fast
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- Most results are found in less than a second.
- You can also access Google’s cached version of a web page, often faster than the page itself.
- Google is Simple to Use
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- Clear uncluttered simple web pages.
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Google Shows What You Get
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- Search results include an excerpt (or “snippet”) of the text that matches your query with your search terms in boldface.
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Google Packs Results with Information and with Links Related to your Query
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Shows a Page Even When it’s Gone or its Link is Inaccessible
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- Google takes a snapshot of each page it examines and caches (stores) these as a backup. If the original isn’t available, you can access Google’s cached version.
- Your search terms will be highlighted in color on the cached page, making it easy to find the sections of the page relevant to your query.
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Google Continually Improves its Search Results
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- Its capabilities are enhanced and expanded to match the dynamic growth and changing nature of the web.
2. Google’s Mission and Philosophy
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. While pursuing this vision, Google has adopted the following philosophy:
- Focus on the user, and all else will follow.
- It’s best to do one thing really well.
- Fast is better than slow.
- Democracy on the web works.
- The world is a wonderful R&D Lab.
- You can make money without doing evil.
- There’s always more information out there.
- The need for information crosses all borders.
- Great just isn’t good enough.
For more about Google’s philosophy, visit https://about.google/.
3. What Can You Find with Google?
Google strives to make it easy to quickly find what you’re seeking. The following list shows some of the many types of searches Google can easily do. Click on the type of information to learn how to search for it and click on the examples to see the results of such a search.