Google 2008 Annual Report Download - page 19

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Google.com—Search and Personalization
We are focused on building products and services on our web sites that benefit our users and let them find
relevant information quickly and easily. These products and services include:
Google Web Search. In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, we have integrated special
features into Google Web Search to help people find exactly what they are looking for on the web. The Google.com
search experience also includes items like:
• Advanced Search Functionality—enables users to construct more complex queries, for example by using
Boolean logic or restricting results to languages, countries or web sites.
• Web Page Translation—supports 41 languages and automatically translates between any two of these
languages, with a total of 1,640 language translation pairs.
• Integrated Tools—such as a spell checker, a calculator, a dictionary and currency and measurement
converters.
• Search by Number—lets users do quick searches by entering shipping tracking numbers, vehicle
identification numbers, product codes, telephone area codes, patent numbers, airplane registration
numbers and electronic equipment identification 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 users to quickly and easily find movie reviews and show
times, information about artists, songs and albums and weather conditions and forecasts.
• News, Finance, Maps, Image, Video, Book, Blogs, and Groups Information—Users are often best served by
different types of results. When relevant, we also search display results from other Google products
including Google News, Google Finance, Google Maps, Google Image Search, Google Video, Google Book
Search, Google Blog 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.
In October 2008, we reached a settlement agreement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American
Publishers over lawsuits in the U.S. over Google Book Search. If approved by the court, millions more in-copyright
books will be accessible to our users. Many books will be available for purchase even if they are out of print,
expanding the market for authors and publishers to earn money from their works.
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 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.
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