22 - Other features of Google - part one

(c)2003 GoogleOne should remember that the choice of the preferred language doesn’t necessarily coincide with the choice of the Google national site you prefer. We’ll see then, speaking of the options, that it is possible, for example, having the toolbar in English and choosing the French national site of Google www.google.fr, .Having chosen the language, just click on "Download Google Toolbar", and the transfer of the file that will install the bar starts. After the download, clicking on "open" you start the installation. One of the question you are asked is "Please select a Google site to use for your searches".As you see, he choice of the national site of reference is independent of the language chosen for the toolbar. Moreover, as I have shown in the previous units, any national setting can be "forced" using the "Language Tools" page._La The bar looks like this:
Starting from the left, here are the main features: the first box is a pull-down menu (those that, clicking on them, open sliding down like Venician blinds being lowered) and has different options. The first one sends you to the "Google Home Page" and is useful fir example when you need the "Language Tools". As a matter of fact, the "Language tools" option sometimes doesn’t appear on the search page, o to get to that ling you may go to the home page, where it is always present.The second options concerns the "Advanced Search", and we have already dealt with it in the previous units. It is used to set more swift search criteria than the simple search, hat imply the presence of given strings in the searched sites, or the absence of given strings, the presence of words in the indicated sequence or in random order; the presence of file of a given format (for example you might request only sites in format .doc, or .xls, or in pre-paged format .pdf), or in the same way exclude file in given formats; searching only the pages, say, edited less than a year ago, six months or three months; you can specify a time span within which numbers must be present: for example, if I use the option "Return web pages containing numbers between 1958 and 1968", I get only results that have within them a number within this interval (therefore, in this case, referred mostly to events in that decade); you can specify in what part of the page the key words you indicated must be: if in the title, in the body of the text or elsewhere; finally, you can specify in what domain the information must be searched: n this field the user is supposed to write, for example, «.".edu" to search only sites with this extension, or even a complete site, or example "www.logos.it".from the pull-down menu the second option is "Google Images", and this is also potentially very useful to translators. Through this option you get to the Google Image Search page (http://www.google.com/imghp). If you insert here a word or string, you get as a result images that are pertinent with that word. f, for example, I insert "badger", I get as a result mostly photos of the mammal in question, that I can recognize and nominate in my own language, If this is different from the one I made the search in. In face of this photo it is easy to solve problems without dictionaries and be certain of what you are speaking of.