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the U.S. over Google Books. If the court approves this settlement, 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 and visualize complex financial
information in an intuitive manner, including linking together different data sources, such as news events
overlayed on stock price.
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.
Google Videos. Google Videos is our searchable index of videos found across the web. To extend the
usefulness of searching for videos, we offer additional features such as searching by video format, quality, length,
and more.
Google Blog Search. Google Blog Search enables users to search the blogging universe more effectively and
find out users’ opinions on a wide variety of subjects. The Google Blog Search index includes every blog that
publishes a site feed. Blogs are web pages usually made up of short, informal, and frequently updated posts that
are arranged chronologically.
iGoogle and Personalized Search. iGoogle connects users to the information that is most useful and
important to them in an easy-to-use and customizable format. Users add gadgets and themes created by Google
and developers to create a powerful and personalized homepage and arrange the content the way they
want. iGoogle and Personalized Search also include social features, which gives our users better content and
search results based on their social graph as well as 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.
Google Product Search. Google Product Search helps users find and compare products from merchants and
directs users to where they can buy these products. Users can search for product information that is submitted
electronically by sellers or automatically identified by Google software.
Google Merchant Center. Google Merchant Center lets merchants submit product listings that they want to
share on Google web sites. Merchants 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 Custom Search. Google Custom Search allows communities of users familiar with particular topics to
build customized search engines. These customized search engines allow the communities to help improve the
quality of search results by labeling and annotating relevant web pages or by creating specialized, subscribed links
for users to get more detailed information about a particular topic.
Google Trends. Google Trends provides users with the ability to track the popularity of keyword searches over
time on Google. Users can simply type in any search or compare multiple keyword searches, including people,
places, or news events to observe the relative search interest over time from all over the world.
Google Music Search. Google Music Search provides a fast and easy “click-to-play” music discovery service
for users searching for music. By entering an artist, album, or song search into Google, users can click the play
button on the search results page to preview the song instantly in the music player provided by our music partners.
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