Sign in link...
...opens the Google Account page. You can access many Google services with one account.
Google Image Search Logo
Images search is next to Web search in popularity. This feature searches over a billion images and returns thumbnails, based on your keywords, with links to full size pictures.
Search operators and advanced search options increase the probability of finding what you are looking for.
Web Search link...
...takes you to the Web Search page, which is the home page of Google.
Images link...
...opens the Google Image Search page with access to over a billion images. Google grants you only the right to view them on the web.
Google analyzes key words in the file name, the text on the page adjacent to the image, and other factors to return most relevant results.
Clicking the link in Google, you automatically resubmit your search as an Image search.
Video link...
...opens access to the Google Video library of TV shows, movies, music videos, documentaries, personal works, etc.
You can download free content, preview or buy commercial videos, and upload your own video.
Also, you can use Google Video for commercial purposes.
Clicking the link in Google, you automatically resubmit your search as a Video search.
News link...
...opens News page with access to news from more than 4,500 sources. Google News headlines are updated every 15 minutes.
The news database is separate from the main Google database. You can search news articles up to 30 days past.
Clicking the link in Google, you automatically resubmit your search as a News search, without having to retype your query.
Maps link...
... opens the Google Maps page. The feature offers a wide range of map-based information, from finding places and driving directions to local businesses, services, and landmarks.
Clicking the link in Google, you automatically resubmit your search as a Maps search.
Gmail link...
...opens the Gmail sign in/ sign up page.
Blogs link...
...opens the Google Blog Search page. A typical blog (Web log) is a personal webpage (website) with periodical journal style entries. Bloggers were formerly known as "escribitionists".
Blogs discuss any imaginable topic, and Google indexes millions of them. Blogs "push" updates to their subscribers and search engines, so the most recent information is usually available.
Books link...
...opens the Google Book Search page. You can search the full text of hundreds of thousands of books.
Depending on copyright restrictions, you can have full access to the text of a book, or see its fragments, or only its description and indication where to get it.
Google Book Search allows out-of-copyright material to be downloaded in PDF format.
Google Products link...
...opens the Google Products Search page. As a shopping search engine, Google Products offers product information from price comparisons to store and product ratings and reviews.
Google Products helps you find products online.
Groups link...
...opens access to an archive of Usenet and Google groups. Usenet is one of the oldest parts of the Internet. It has over 30,000 active newsgroups where people discuss all kinds of topics.
You can search postings in both active and defunct groups between 1981 and today.
Clicking the link in Google, you automatically resubmit your search as a Groups search.
Patents link...
...opens the Google Patent Search page. All patents come from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and cover patents issued from the 1790s till about 6 months ago. More recent are not yet available.
Google has converted the entire image database of U.S. patents into a searchable format. You can search the full text of U.S. patents.
Blogger link...
...takes you to the Blogger website. You can search blogs, create your own blog, do all kinds of blog things here.
Blogger.com has been acquired by Google, and now it's an integrated part of the whole system.
Calendar link...
...opens the Google Calendar page. You can create your personal calendar, share it with others, import data from MS Outlook and other calendar programmes, and so on.
You can also display a calendar on your site.
Documents link...
...opens a page with an explanation of the service and a Google Account login dialog.
You can work with your documents and spreadsheets online, make them accessible to designated people, or publish them as web pages.
Google Finance link...
...opens the Google Finance page which displays a combination of general market news and in-depth financial information on specific stocks, mutual funds, and public and private companies.
The information comes from a variety of financial data providers, as well as from Google's main search database.
Labs link...
...opens the front page of "Google's technology playground".
Many new ideas are tried out here, such as Google RideFinder for a dozen of US cities, Google Mars, and a whole lot more. Some of them will make it to mainstream search features.
Orkut link...
...opens the Orkut online community page.
Photos link...
...opens the Google photo sharing page based on Picasa Web Albums.
Picasa lets you view, organize, edit and share the digital photos on your PC.
Reader link...
...opens the Google Reader page.
Google Reader checks news sites and blogs for new content. You can specify what sources to check.
Scholar link...
...takes you to the Google Scholar search page. The Google Scholar sources are peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Depending on copyright issues, Google Scholar provides multiple ways to access scholarly content, from free full text to library links and purchase options.
more>> link...
...opens a long list of services and tools provided by Google. It has more search interfaces, such as Catalogs or Books, and a lot of related features, such as Labs or Blogger.
Note that the arrangement of navigational links changes constantly. For instance, quite recently Video was in the primary menu line, then it was replaced by Products. Any migrations are possible any time, the only rule is that the more popular features tend to be placed in the primary menu line.
Search Box
This Search box has the same functionality as the Search box on the main Image Search page.
Advaned Image Search link...
...opens the Advaned Image Search page.
Many of the advanced search features, though not all, are accessible from this page. Others require the use of search operators and other tools and techniques.
Preferences link...
...opens the Preferences page. It allows you to customize the way you use Google.
Your selections are stored in cookies on your machine for later retrieval.
Moderate SafeSearch is on link...
...opens Preferences page.
Scroll down to SafeSearch Filtering where you can choose Use strict filtering or Do not filter my search results instead of the moderate filtering.
Definition link...
...opens a page with definitions of the word(s) in the link.
Words are linked only if they have definitions.
Showing list...
...allows you to limit the results to images of a particular size.
Small is about 100 x 100 pixels.
Medium is around 200 x 200 pixels.
Large is everything else.
Thumbnail image...
...is clickable. It opens a web page with two frames:
- The upper frame includes the image thumbnail, information about the image, and a few links.
- The bottom frame contains the original page with the image.
Image text...
...is either the caption associated with the image, or any text located next to the image on the web page.
URL of result...
...is the full web i of the website where the image was found.
It is not a clickable link; you have to click the page title to jump to the page
Dimensions...
...show the dimensions of the original image in pixels.
Size...
...is the size of the original image in kilobytes.
File format label...
...shows the format of the original image file.
More results from link...
...displays redults from the same website.
Goooooogle...
...is a string of o's with each 'o' linked to a results pages.
Each 'o' corresponds to the number under it. You can click on o's instead of numbers to open results pages.
Google Home link...
...takes you to the Google home page.
Advertising Programs link...
...opens the Google Advertising Programs page with access to Google AdWords and Google AdSense.
Business Solutions link...
...opens a page with more commercial offers from Google. It is outside of this Use Simulator.
About Google link...
...opens Google's information center. Google Help, products, corporate information etc. are accessible from this page.