
What Google Guide Explains
How to select terms and search (more) effectively
How Google interprets your query
What's included with your results
How to search using Google's special tools and shortcuts
What to do when you can't find the answer you want
Google's Feature History
How Google works
Google Guide's Home Page
Google strives to make it easy to find whatever you're seeking, whether it's a web page, a news article, a definition, something to buy, or text in a book. By understanding what appears on a results page, you'll be better able to determine if a page includes the information you're seeking or links to it.
After you enter a query, Google returns a results list ordered by what it considers the items' relevance to your query, listing the best match first. Spondored links sometimes appear above to to the right of the search results.
In this course segment, you'll learn:
How Google works
What information and links may be included with your results
How to customize your results by using Preferences
How to evaluate what you find