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Information Literacy: Google

Knowing Good Sources

How Searches Work on Google
For a typical query, there are thousands, even millions, of webpages with potentially relevant information. So, how does Google figure out what to show in your search results? Well, the journey starts before you even type your search…

Using Google Successfully

Google Infograph of How a Search Works
The journey of a search query begins long before you type your search into Google. We use software robots, known as web crawlers or spiders, that find webpages to include later in Google search results. Google's software stores data about these pages in data centers.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

Google Anti-Trust Fine

EU slaps Google with record $2.7 billion fine
The search giant was charged with giving “illegal advantages” to another Google product within search results in a case that started more than seven years ago. The case relates specifically to Google Shopping, Google’s increasingly profitable shopping comparison engine.

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