Just Google it...

"Google it"  

It's so amazing how the world has so much become a global village. Just about anything, I mean anything you want is readily available on the Internet. I can say, Google is the best thing that has happened on the Internet.

Curiosity and quest to know has led me to do so much research on Google and as I earlier stated in my previous post, "my quest is not just for head knowledge but practical application which I implore you to follow suit"  and I find it difficult to believe there are things you can't find on the internet.

"Google it" is a popular slang and sarcastic response given to rhetorical question or direct questions we don't have answers to among my friends.

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We live in an age where things are done at almost the speed

of thought and Google has become a house-hold name to search just about anything on the internet. 

We have often ask our self some couple of questions about Google, so here are some things you need to know about Google as described by Wikipedia.

Google Search, commonly referred to as Google Web Search or just Google, is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. It is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, handling more than three billion searches each day.

History of Google

  The history of Google cannot be complete without mentioning the founders. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. 

    Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 of the stockholder voting power through super voting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004.

Google's mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," and right now Google is about the world largest search engine.
The same and other options can be specified in a different way on an Advanced Search page.
There are special features for numbers, dates, and some specific forms, including ranges, prices, temperatures, money and measurement unit conversions, calculations, package tracking, patents, area codes, and language translation. In June 2011 Google introduced "Google Voice Search" to search for a spoken, rather than typed, word. In May 2012 Google introduced a Knowledge Graph semantic search feature in the U.S.

     You might also want to ask, on what order is the result of search on Google based? Google search results pages is based in part, on a priority rank called a "PageRank". 

Google Search provides many different options for customized search, using Boolean operators such as: exclusion ("-xx"), alternatives ("xx OR yy OR zz"), and wildcards for example ("Winston * Churchill" returns "Winston Churchill", "Winston Spencer Churchill", etc.) 

The main purpose of Google Search is to hunt for text in publicly accessible documents offered by web servers, as opposed to other data, such as image or database search. Google Search provides several features beyond searching for words. These include synonyms, weather forecasts, time zones, stock quotes, maps, earthquake data, movie showtimes, airports, home listings, and sports scores. 

Some Google Competitors include:
Baidu and Soso.com in China; 

Naver.com and Daum Communications in SouthKorea; 

Yandex in Russia; 

Seznam.cz in the Czech republic; 

Yahoo! in Japan, Taiwan and the United States, as well as Bing and DuckDuckGo. 

There are other smaller search engines that offer facilities not available with Google, e.g., not storing any tracking information.

       According to Wikipedia, Google /ɡuːɡ(ə)l/ is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. 

There are quite a number of Google products broadly grouped as seen below:

·       Mobile: Get Google products on your mobile phone.

·       Image Search: Search for images on the Web.

·       News: Search thousands of news stories.

·       Docs: Open, edit, and create documents.

·       Translate: Instantly translate text, web pages, and files        between over 50 languages.

·       Web Search: Search billions of web pages.

·       Groups: Create mailing lists and discussion groups.

·       Blog Search: Find blogs on your favorite topics.

·       Scholar: Search scholarly papers.

·       Alerts: Get email updates on the topics of your choice.

·       Code: Developer tools, APIs and resources.

There are loads of more products, you will be amazed at the varieties of other products from Google that you can benefit from. Check out this video for lots more.