Google Web Search is a feature of Google that allows you to search for pages across the entire web. By default, it also will find matches from related Google search services, all mixed together as part of the “Everything” results that display.

Using Google Web Search is easy — just go to the Google home page and perform a search. However, you might find our guides below provide you some helpful information on how to get more out of your Google searching:

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Further below are recent articles from Search Engine Land related to Google Web Search:

New Design & Features Come To iPhone Google Search: Version 2.0

May 23, 2012 at 1:25pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Google has announced a new version of the Google Search iPhone app. The new version is version 2.0 and was completely redesigned focusing on speed, usability, new features and making it beautiful. Here are the main new changes you will find in version 2.0: Complete App Redesign Full Screen Mode Option Faster Search Autocompletion Faster Page & Swipe Load Times Image Search Redesigned Adding Full Screen, High Resolution Images & Save Image Feature Swipe Away Web Pages To Return To Results Search Within Web Pages Faster Switching Between Images, Places, News, Web & Other Vertica [...]

Related Topics: Google: Mobile | Google: Web Search

Peeking Into the World Of Google’s Algorithm Changes With Google Search Quality Head Amit Singhal

May 17, 2012 at 6:57am ET by Vanessa Fox

Earlier this week, Google Fellow Amit Singhal gave the opening keynote at SMX London. Although Matt Cutts has always been the public face of all parts of Google's unpaid search, his realm is primarily web spam. Singhal has been speaking publicly more often (notably when Panda launched) and oversees search quality. Or, as he described in his talk, when he came to Google in 2000, he took a look at Sergey Brin's code and entirely rewrote Google's ranking algorithms. Near the end of the talk, someone asked if how much money Google will make is factored into decisions about changes to Google's ( [...]

Google Launches Knowledge Graph To Provide Answers, Not Just Links

May 16, 2012 at 1:00pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Hinted at for months, Google formally launched its "Knowledge Graph" today. The new technology is being used to provide popular facts about people, places and things alongside Google's traditional results. It also allows Google to move toward a new way of searching not for pages that match query terms but for "entities" or concepts that the words describe. Knowledge Graph? "Graph" is a technical term used to describe how a set of objects are connected. Google has used a "link graph" to model how pages link to each other, in order to help determine which are popular and relevant for part [...]

Did Google Drop 100+ Small Directories?

May 16, 2012 at 9:44am ET by Barry Schwartz

Yesterday I covered a WebmasterWorld thread where SEOs were complaining that Google has been removing tons of free web directories from their index. I conducted some random tests and did notice some of these free web directories not coming up in Google. Later in the day, Terry Van Horne began running larger tests on 500+ web directories and noticed as much as 16% or more are no longer showing up in Google. Based on his initial numbers, there are over a 100 web directories that are not indexed by Google. I do not know if these directories were ever listed in Google or removed recently d [...]

Live Blogging: Interview with Amit Singhal, Google Fellow

May 15, 2012 at 3:56am ET by Daniel Waisberg

Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman are on the stage at SMX London to interview Amit Singhal. Amit is a Google Fellow, a honorary title reserved for Google’s most accomplished engineers, and he has spearheaded Google’s core ranking team since 2000. He’s also a key influencer of Search Plus Your World, Google’s search experience centered around people, that lets you find personal results from your world — your photos, your friends, your stuff — in search. Chris Sherman is on stage to introduce Amit Singhal, Google's Vice President and Google Fellow. Chris provides Amit's background [...]

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