The document summarizes Google search capabilities including statistics on the growth of Google searches over time from 10,000 queries per day in 1998 to over 3.5 billion searches per day currently. It also outlines various Google search operators such as using quotes for exact phrase matching, minus sign (-) to exclude terms, and site: to limit results to a specific domain. The document concludes by mentioning Google's advanced search page which consolidates these different search operators.
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Advanced Searching With Google
1. A presentation by Ivelin Kirilov
Advanced
searching with
Google
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2. Table of contents
Google Statistics
Google Search Operators
Google Advanced search page
4. When Google was founded in September 1998, it was
serving ten thousand search queries per day. By the end
of 2006 that same amount would be served in a single
second
Google now processes over 40,000 search queries every
second on average (visualize them here), which
translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2
trillion searches per year worldwide. The chart below
shows the number of searches per year throughout
Google's history:
7. search
Use quotes to search for an exact word or set of words
on a web page. Only use this if you're looking for an
exact word or phrase, otherwise you'll exclude many
helpful results by mistake.
20. ..
Separate numbers by two periods without spaces (..) to
see results that contain numbers in a given range of
things like dates, prices, and measurements.