The Structure of a Google Search!
Search Box: This is where you put your query. The results are listed by Google in order of relevance to the query. The most relevant being the first.
Page Title: The title of the webpage or the URL when the page has no title.
Snippet: A short excerpt of the text which matches your input query, with the search item in bold typeface (in this case America
URL: Web address of the search result.
Cached: This is a snapshot of the webpage taken by Google earlier, which is used to match the result to the query. Sometimes the information provided on the webpage is changed after it has been indexed by Google, then the cached provided proves to be useful.
Similar Pages: This gives us links to other sites that are similar to that particular result. For example, if you are interested in finding sites similar to Wikipedia. Search Wikipedia, when you get the www.wikipedia.com link in the Search Results. Click on ‘Similar pages’ and Google will list sites similar to Wikipedia.
Definitions: This link gives you definition for the query word provided by Answers.com. When you put more than one word as input query, both the words will be highlighted in blue, bold, and underlined, i.e., American Independence. Clicking on the link will take you to the definition.
Number of Results: This shows you the number of hits you have received from Google for the particular search query.
Preference: This link takes you to the preference page of Google, so that you can save your preferences like Interface Language, Search Language, Safe Search preference, Number of Results, etc.
It is advisable that a transcriber or editor sets his Number of Results preference to 100. Doing this will show 100 results in the results page, and not the usual 10. This helps as you don’t have to click ‘Next’ after looking at every 10 results.
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