The Google search field in the toolbar might not be
enough for you.
Clicking on the logo on the left side of your Google
Toolbar gives you access to some useful services:
- Google Home Page: Takes you to Google's home
page.
- Google Links:
- Advanced Search Page: Takes you to Google's Advanced
Search page, which enables you to:
- restrict your search to pages within a given website
- exclude pages from a particular website
- restrict your search to pages only in a given language
- find all the pages that link to a given web page
- find pages that are related to a given web page
- Google Images: Image
Search offers the web's largest compendium of indexed
images.
- Google Groups: Groups
is a searchable Usenet archive.
- Google Web Directory: Web
Directory is the largest human-edited collection of web
pages grouped by categories.
- Google News: News
offers the latest news headlines from thousands of news sources.
- Blogger.com: Blogger
is Google's home for weblog (blog) authors and a place to
create your own online journal for free. The Google Toolbar
has a BlogThis! button that enables
you to post directly to your blog from any web page.
- Zeitgeist:
Reports on trends and patterns relating to what's being searched
for by users worldwide.
- Search
Preferences Page: Change the default number of search
results you see, turn SafeSearch filtering on or off, or choose
to use Google in another language.
- Language
Tools Page: Restrict your search to web pages written
in a particular language or from a specific country. Translate
web pages or other text, change your Google interface language,
or visit different country-specific versions of Google.
- Options...: Opens the Toolbar Options window, which
provides you with a number of ways to customize your Google Toolbar.
The Google Search Box is the heart of the Google Toolbar. Use it
to do a Google search from anywhere on the web. Just enter your
search terms in the text box. Recent searches appear in the drop-down
menu below the search box. To resize the search box, point to the
right of the box and drag to the size you like.
The Site Search button lets you search for information just within
the pages of the website you're visiting. Enter your search terms
in the text box and click "Search Site." Google returns
results just from that website (e.g., yellowTAB.com) instead of
the entire web.
I'm Feeling Lucky™: Automatically takes you to the top result
Google returned for your query. You go directly to that website,
so you don't see the other search results found by Google.
The Search Groups feature enables you to easily search within Google
Groups, Google's Usenet archive. To use this service, enter your
search text into the Toolbar search box and click the Search Groups
button.
Search the Web Directory, which combines the Open Directory Project
with Google's own ranking system to give you an extremely useful
tool for finding information within a broad set of categories.
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