37 Facts About Google Search

Google Search is a search engine provided by Google.

Order of search results returned by Google is based, in part, on a priority rank system called "PageRank".

Google Search provides many different options for customized searches, using symbols to include, exclude, specify or require certain search behavior, and offers specialized interactive experiences, such as flight status and package tracking, weather forecasts, currency, unit, and time conversions, word definitions, and more.

Main purpose of Google Search is to search for text in publicly accessible documents offered by web servers, as opposed to other data, such as images or data contained in databases.

In 2011, Google introduced "Google Voice Search" to search for spoken, rather than typed, words.

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In 2012, Google introduced a Knowledge Graph semantic search feature.

Data about the frequency of use of search terms on Google can be openly inquired via Google Trends and have been shown to correlate with flu outbreaks and unemployment levels, and provide the information faster than traditional reporting methods and surveys.

For websites that are currently down or otherwise not available, Google provides links to cached versions of the site, formed by the search engine's latest indexing of that page.

In 2012, Google changed its search indexing tools to demote sites that had been accused of piracy.

In December 2017, Google Search began rolling out the change, having already done so for multiple websites.

In 2008, Google started to give users autocompleted search suggestions in a list below the search bar while typing, originally with the approximate result count previewed for each listed search suggestion.

Tom Chavez of "Rapt", a firm helping to determine a website's advertising worth, estimated in 2007 that Google lost $110 million in revenue per year due to use of the button, which bypasses the advertisements found on the search results page.

Google Search released a browser extension for the Chrome browser, named with a "beta" tag for unfinished development, shortly thereafter.

In June 2017, Google expanded its search results to cover available job listings.

In May 2009, Google announced that they would be parsing website microformats to populate search result pages with "Rich snippets".

In May 2016, Google Search expanded on the "Rich snippets" format to offer "Rich cards", which, similarly to snippets, display more information about results, but shows them at the top of the mobile website in a swipeable carousel-like format.

Knowledge Graph is a knowledge base used by Google to enhance its search engine's results with information gathered from a variety of sources.

Google Search has been accused of using a so-called zero-click search to prevent a large part of the traffic leaving its page to third-party publishers.

In May 2017, Google enabled a new "Personal" tab in Google Search, letting users search for content in their Google accounts' various services, including email messages from Gmail and photos from Google Photos.

Google Search Discover, previously known as Google Search Feed, is a personalized stream of articles, videos, and other news-related content.

Google Search Discover launched in December 2016 and received a major update in July 2017.

When Google was a Stanford research project, it was nicknamed BackRub because the technology checks backlinks to determine a site's importance.

In 2013 the European Commission found that Google Search favored Google's own products, instead of the best result for consumers' needs.

In February 2015 Google announced a major change to its mobile search algorithm which would favor mobile friendly over other websites.

Google Search says it wants users to have access to premium quality websites.

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Google Search has published guidelines for website owners who would like to raise their rankings when using legitimate optimization consultants.

Google Search Console helps to check for websites that use duplicate or copyright content.

In 2013, Google significantly upgraded its search algorithm with "Hummingbird".

The mobile apps exclusively feature Google Discover and a "Collections" feature, in which the user can save for later perusal any type of search result like images, bookmarks or map locations into groups.

Until May 2013, Google Search had offered a feature to translate search queries into other languages.

Instant Search could be disabled via Google's "preferences" menu for those who didn't want its functionality.

Publication 2600: The Hacker Quarterly compiled a list of words that Google Search Instant did not show suggested results for, with a Google Search spokesperson giving the following statement to Mashable:.

Google Search originally suggested that the interruption was temporary and related to the launch of Google Search+; they subsequently announced that it was due to the expiry of a commercial arrangement with Twitter to provide access to tweets.

Since 2012, Google Search Inc has globally introduced encrypted connections for most of its clients, to bypass governative blockings of the commercial and IT services.

In November 2013, Google started testing yellow labels for advertisements displayed in search results, to improve user experience.

In 2012, Google Search has indexed over 30 trillion web pages, and received 100 billion queries per month.

In 2003, The New York Times complained about Google Search's indexing, claiming that Google Search's caching of content on its site infringed its copyright for the content.