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eb searching has become a part of the day-to-day life of any person
who has a computer. Searches vary from words, phrases, products,
people, images, and many other forms. Today, when you want to

know something you simply do a Web search. There are many search engines but
none, according to 

searchengineshowdown.com,

quite as large due to

Google’s inclusion of file types such as PDF, DOC and PS, not indexed by other
search engines. What makes Google so powerful is not just the sheer number of
files it has indexed, but the tools that make arriving at the answer to your ques-
tion simple and straightforward. 

This chapter helps you learn to better form your queries and introduce you to
the basic Google search. Even the basic Google search is powerful and gives you
an amazing amount of control over how you view your results and how to best
focus your search so that you arrive quickly and easily at the results you seek.

The most basic Google search is performed by navigating to the Google home
page at 

www.google.com

, typing a search term into the Google Search box

(shown in Figure 1.1), and pressing Enter. Before you can say Google, your
results appear for you to peruse.

Your search results appear with a short description of the resulting page and a
link to navigate to it. Clicking the link causes you to navigate away from Google
to the page. To return to Google, click the Back button in your browser. This is
often represented as a left-facing arrow icon. 

Searching the Web

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