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• Search by Number—lets people do quick searches by entering shipping tracking numbers, vehicle ID numbers,
product codes, telephone area codes, patent numbers, airplane registration numbers and electronic equipment
ID government numbers.
• Cached Links—provides snapshots of web pages taken when the pages were indexed, letting users view web
pages that are no longer available.
• Movie, Music and Weather Information—enables people to quickly and easily find movie reviews and
showtimes, information about artists, songs and albums and weather conditions and forecasts.
• News, Finance, Maps, Image, Book and Groups Information—when relevant, we also display results from other
Google products including Google News, Google Finance, Google Maps, Google Image Search, Google Book
Search and Google Groups.
Google Image Search. Google Image Search is our searchable index of images found across the web. To extend the
usefulness of Google Image Search, we offer advanced features, such as searching by image size, format and coloration and
restricting searches to specific web sites or domains.
Google Book Search. Google Book Search lets users search the full text of a library-sized collection of books to
discover books of interest and to learn where to buy or borrow them. Through this program, publishers can host their
content and show their publications at the top of our search results. We also work closely with participating libraries to
digitize all or part of their collections to create a full-text searchable online card catalog. Google Book Search links bring
users to pages containing bibliographic information and several sentences of the search term in context, sample book
pages, or full text, depending on author and publisher permissions and book copyright status.
Google Scholar. Google Scholar provides a simple way to do a broad search for relevant scholarly literature including
peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles. Content in Google Scholar is taken from academic publishers,
professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, and other scholarly organizations.
Google Base. Google Base lets content owners submit content that they want to share on Google web sites. Content
owners can describe and assign attributes to the information they submit and Google uses this descriptive content to
better target search results to what users are looking for.
Google Webmaster Tools. Google Webmaster Tools provides information to webmasters to help them enhance their
understanding of how their web sites interact with the Google search engine. Content owners can submit sitemaps and
geotargeting information through Google Webmaster Tools to improve search quality.
Google Finance. Google Finance provides a simple user interface to navigate complex financial information in an
intuitive manner, including linking together different data sources, such as correlating stock price movements to news
events.
Google News. Google News gathers information from thousands of news sources worldwide and presents news
stories in a searchable format within minutes of their publication on the web. The leading stories are presented as
headlines on the user-customizable Google News home page. These headlines are selected for display entirely by a
computer algorithm, without regard to political viewpoint or ideology.
Personalized Homepage and Search. Our Google.com personalized homepage gives our users a way to add the
information they care about most to their own version of the Google homepage. Personalized homepages bring together
content from across the web and other Google properties, such as Gmail and Google News, in ways that are useful to our
users. Personalized Search gives our users better search results based on what they have searched for in the past, making it
easier to quickly find the information that is more relevant to them. Users can also view and manage their history of past
searches and the results they have clicked on, and create bookmarks with labels and notes.
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