Google Secrets (Secrets of the Internet Search Engines)

Secrets of the Internet Search Engines 

(Google Secrets)

Google at a Glance

Google is called by itself as the "World's Best Search Engine"! In maximum circumstances, the statement is true also. Not only the world's largest and most trafficked site; Google is also one of the 10 most popular and greatest sites in the internet. We can look at the statistics below: 

• Google’s search engine indexes more than 3 billion Web pages, more than 425 million images, and more than 700 million Usenet messages

• Google provides an interface for 88 different languages and offers

• results in 35 languages—more than half of Google’s traffic is from outside the U.S. 

• More than 73.5 million unique users visit Google each month

• Google is used for more than 200 million searches every day

If you’re a typical Internet user, you access Google several times a week, if not several times a day. As a typical user, you also don’t use a tenth of Google’s search power—which means you’re not searching as effectively or as efficiently as you could. That’s probably because you never move beyond Google’s admittedly easy-to-use home page. The Google home page (www.google.com) is a marvel of simplicity and elegant Web page design. As you can see in Figure 6-1, most searches can be undertaken by entering a query into the search box and then clicking the Google Search button. This returns a list of results ranked in order of relevance. (will be continued...)