Dear Google Friends,
Summer is in full swing, the days are long, and the time for holidays
is here. Google, of course, hasn't taken a vacation from providing the
best search on the Web. And with some of the new features we announce
today, we think we've made it even better!
Hat Trick! Google Ranks No. 1 in NPD Search Scorecard
for the third consecutive time.
Thanks to our vocal Google users, we placed first overall for user
satisfaction and loyalty in the NPD survey for the third quarter in a
row! Here are the vitals:
- No. 1 Opinion of Site: 97.4 percent of users rated Google as excellent
or very good.
- No. 1 Recommend to a Friend: Google topped all sites with 94 percent
of its users saying they would tell their friend about Google
- No. 1 Comparison vs. Other Sites: 98 percent of surveyed users rated
Google as much or somewhat better than other search sites.
- No. 1 Delivering the Information Sought: 97 percent of users surveyed
reported that Google found relevant information every time
or most of the time.
For more info about the survey and the other categories Google topped,
see: http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease29.html
As You Like It: Our New Customized Preferences Page
Customize your Google easily with our new Language, Display, and
Filtering Ooptions page. Here you can:
- set languages preferences, both interface language and search language
- set the number of default results you prefer per screen--
10, 20, 30, 50, or 100
- set your default for SafeSearch (adult content filtering)
either ON or OFF
You can find this page at: http://www.google.com/preferences.html
Refined Searching: Our Sophisticated New Advanced
Search Page
Tune the precision of your searching at our new Advanced Search page,
where you can:
- search for exact phrases
- exclude words from a search
- restrict your search to specific domain
(for finding only .uk pages, for instance)
- find all pages that link to a certain page
Now you can perform razor-sharp searches, easily! Find this page at:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search.html
Please Define: Search for Dictionary Definitions on
Google
Use Google to find dictionary definitions! Just enter your query into
the search box as you would normally. Any part of your query for
which we have a dictionary definition will be underlined in the center
text above the search results, as seen for the query "googol" in the
following example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=googol&meta=lr%3D%26hl%3Den
Click on the link to see the relevant dictionary definition.
Here's to higher Scrabble scores!
Google Makes Splash in "Land of the Morning Calm"
with Korean Search
To our friends in East Asia: Google is coming to a computer screen near
you! We recently launched a beta version of our new Korean language
search, and we plan to roll out Chinese and Japanese language search
very soon.
Find our Korean search at: http://www.google.co.kr
(but remember to set your browser language encoding to Korean!)
Enjoy the summer and thanks for using Google!
-Larry, Sergey, and the Google Team
