Summary

For many people, Google search is simply the word or phrase typed into a Google search text box. The power of Google searching far exceeds this simple capability. This chapter showed how you can:

• Build focused queries using search operators

• Perform special number searches

• Look up the definition of words

• Find specialized information such as movie guides, financial information and the weather

• Perform specialized queries to find similar or past versions of pages

• Search through Google services such as Google News, Froogle and Google Groups

• Perform advanced page-specific and topic-specific searches