Googled

Pre-Script: This is an amateurish attempt at documenting the Googol (that spelling is not a typing mistake) that grew out of the labs of Stanford University. Google.

So in keeping with the motto of google: Simple is beautiful..

This is what the original interface of google looked like.

The most that we come across is Google Search..

There are a few sites which are sure to be of a great help if we read across before we search next time. It will save you a lot more time and frustration in searching for relevant information regarding your search queries then the time spent reading through these.

1. The most obvious: The google help pages. All of them.

* Basic search help

* More search help

2. Besides these two help pages there are a couple of other links at google which are pretty neat and helpful. One of these is the Google Cheat Sheet.

3. This other one is a tool which google offers to be downloaded, installed and then used. And this is one of the most handy search tools I have come across. The Google Hack.

Besides, these two of my favorite options to use while searching with google, include:

* The option to set the date limit in Advanced search. We can decide, what is our tolerance for the age of information we are looking for. Because there are so many times that we are looking for maps, statistics regarding something. And after searching when we open the site, the information is simply so old that its useless. One nifty advantage of setting this option is, with each search result it starts to show the date as to when was the page last edited.

* The other option which took a steep climb lately in my liking for it, has been. 'site:' We can search a specific site for all the articles regarding our search query. Like the site of one company for all the articles it has regarding one of it's products. Or say the website of a new media house, for all the posts contains a specific name or incident.

Okie, that was my take on a quick beginners lesson at searching with google. But, the thing is the more I googled (yes, that is a legitimate verb) google. There was an almost endless supply of material. There were books about google, about hacking google, there were websites and blogs exclusively dedicated to following google. And the number of services offered by google seem to keep going endlessly. Even tried the, Google is Evil. Returned great search results. The nuts of it is, posts about google are gonna be endless. And I am gonna keep coming up with them from time to time. Thus, until next post.

Happy Googling. And adios.

Take care everyone. *peace*