The Many Faces of Google

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Special Searches

Google provides the following specialized search engines:

Search for Mac and Apple things
Apple Macintosh

www.google.com/mac
Search for Mac & Apple things
 
Search for the BSD operating system
BSD

www.google.com/bsd
Search for the BSD operating system
Search for Linux-related pages
Linux

www.google.com/linux
Search all Linux-friendly pages
 
Search Microsoft-related pages
Microsoft

www.google.com/microsoft.html
Search Microsoft-related pages
Search all .gov and .mil sites
U.S. Government

www.google.com/unclesam
Search all .gov and .mil sites
 
University Search
University Search

www.google.com/options/universities.html
Narrow your search to a specific institutions's website

Why has Google developed these special topics and not others? Early on in Google history, some engineers created these specialized search engines to serve their own interests. They've remained part of the site though Google has turned its attention to other types of search services and features.

You can find links to these specialized search engines, as well as Froogle and Google Catalogs, on the Advanced Web Search form.

Exercises Theses problems give you practice in using Google's specialized search engines.

  1. What was special about the Apple Lisa computer, and why did it fail?

  2. What are the advantages of Linux over Windows and vice versa?


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