google (google.com)

Member Name: clairedooyoo

Product:	google.com
Date:	27/08/09 (5 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: easy to use

Disadvantages: ??

If you haven't heard of 'Google' you must have been living in a cardboard box for years. It is probably the most well known search engine available on the web. To use it in the most simply way, you go onto the website www.google.com and type anything you like into the search box. As you start to type a list underneath appears with suggestions of what you may be searching for. If you spell anything incorrectly Google will bring up the web pages it has found, but at the top 'did you mean.....' will appear. If you search for something general such as 'cars' you will get loads of web suggestions, so it is worth making the search more specific,. Such as adding in the make and model of the car you are interested in.

Other ways to specify the search is to click on the links Google provides, these are;
Images - where you can search specifically for images.
Videos - enables are search just of videos
Maps - You type an area or postcode in the search box and a map will be provided.
News - A tab designed to search for stories in the news.

Once you have become familiar of using Google, it is good to start using the 'advanced' search tab. When I was at university I used the 'scholar' tab which you can use to search academic papers.

Another tip is if you are searching for something you know is in the UK, tick the 'pages from UK' box, if not you sometimes have web pages from different countries that look really promising then you realise the product etc are from China!

Summary: How did we ever live without Google??