And more
Here are a few other Google products you may want to know about. Go to
Google Labs (labs.google.com) to find them:
Google Deskbar: Add a Google search component to the Windows
taskbar.
Google Desktop: Use Google’s technology to search your own computer.
Google Video: Search TV shows and videos.
Google Glossar y: This is a quick way to look up definitions. It’s similar
to the define: command (discussed earlier in the chapter) but pro-
vides more information.
Google Scholar: Search through journal articles, abstracts, and other
scholarly publications.
Google Sets: You provide a few search terms, and then Google expands
the list and provides a bunch of search links.
Google Compute: This program lets you donate your computer’s idle
time to worthy computer-intensive research projects, such as Stanford
University’s project to understand how proteins “fold." When your com-
puter’s not working for you, it’s working for Stanford.
Google Book Search: Google is indexing millions of books. Visit
http://books.google.com/.
Go to www.google.com/help/features.html to find other search sys-
tems, such as PhoneBook, Street Maps, Web Page Translation, and so on.
The Other Search Systems
Google is the monster, the system everyone is interested in because it’s
everywhere. It’s not just at www.google.com; it’s also on AOL.com,
Earthlink.com, WashingtonPost.com, Amazon.com, and many others.
The other search systems have similar search tools. I’m not going to describe
each tool in detail because this landscape is constantly changing. If you want
to search at another site, dig around a little to find instructions. You may
need to do a search first before you can get to a page that provides instruc-
tions. Portal sites, such as MSN.com and AOL.com, often provide a search
box and button, but no instructions. However, after you’ve searched once
and entered the full search area, you can find instructions.
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