Login to google search. How to make Google your home page: instructions for all browsers

Search engine google system the most popular in the world, so if you don't know how to use it, you may feel unsettled. If you want to learn how to use simple search on Google or would like to improve your Google skills, this article is for you. Follow the instructions below and you will learn how to search for something on Google.

Steps

Simple Google Search

Open your browser.

Type www.google.com in the address bar at the top of the page and you will be taken to the Google home page. You will see White screen with a search box and a colored Google logo above it.

Type the word or phrase you want to find in the search field. For example, you can search for “how to find a job” or “the best restaurant in Moscow”.

Press enter on your keyboard. You can also click on the blue magnifying glass, the effect will be the same. You will then be presented with a list of results that match your search query.

Review your results, scroll from top to bottom to see all options. If you didn't find anything suitable on the first page, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Next" to view the next page with results.

Click on the result that suits you. If you find an article that answers the questions, you can open it. A new site page will open. If, after reading this article, you would like to read something else on the same topic, click on the arrow with the tip pointing to the left (located in the upper left corner of your browser) to return to the search page.

You can keep looking for as long as you like.

If you did not find anything suitable for your request, please specify it. To do this, you need to go back to the google search page. Make your request more specific. For example, instead of looking for "Best Restaurant in Moscow" and getting a bunch of links in return, you can type in "Best Chinese Restaurant in Moscow in 2013", which will significantly narrow your search.
- You may need to clarify your request in cases where it is too specific. If the keyword phrase is too long or specific, you may not get relevant results, in which case you will have to go back and look for something more general.
Use these tips to refine your search. In addition, you can refine your query by not only changing the words used, but also using the tips below:
- Common words appear more frequently in searches with using google, so if it is important for you to find queries with the words "how" or "where", put in front of them +
- If a set of words is combined into a phrase, you can enclose it in quotes or brackets. This is very useful if, for example, you know a few words from a song and want to know its title:
  - Glass Steps or Glass Steps.
- You can put a minus sign in front of the words you want to avoid in the results. For example, if you search for "nano" and do not want the search to return an iPod Nano, you can display the query like this: "nano - iPod."
- If you are looking for the cost of an item, enter the lower limit after the currency icon, then type "...", then the currency icon and the upper price limit again. For example: "Mattress $ 250 ... $ 400"
Move your search to other areas of Google. Instead of searching through the regular search bar from the Google home page, you can make your search more specific - depending on what you need to find. These can be sections of news, images or Google maps. Links to them are in the upper left above the search bar. Here's what you can do:
- Select the "Pictures" section. He is third from the right in the panel. With it, you can search exclusively by images. For example, if you are looking for a photo of a celebrity or a shot from a fashion show, the Google Images section can be a useful resource.
- Go to the "News" section. This section is the fifth from the right edge of the panel. This is a very useful thing if you want to find something from the field of news, and not just some general concept.
- Once you have entered the "News" section, you can select a country by selecting the arrow under current version news and changing it to the desired one. This function is right below the search bar.
- Select "cards". With Google Maps, you can find your way from one place to another.
Advanced Search
1. Open your browser
  
  Go to Google's advanced search page. You can get to it in two ways:
  - Go to: http://www.google.ca/advanced_search
  - If you are already searching for something on Google, you can click on the button on the right side of the search page. Select "Advanced Search".
2. Find the pages with the words you need. To do this, you will have to fill in as many fields as possible on new page, you don't need to fill them all out, just focus on the categories you need to refine your search query. Here is the information you need to provide.
  - In the line "using these words" enter keywords for your search
  - On the line "exact word or phrase", write the word or phrase you are looking for.
  - In the line "any of these words" write any words you want to see in the results.
  - In the line "does not include words" write unwanted words
  - Under the "numeric range" enter numbers in any desired range.
  - It should be noted that Google provides you with tips on how to search using different ways, you can find these tips to the right of the search tools.
3. Narrow your results. You can add more details about the subject of your search to further narrow your results. You do not need to enter data in all categories, concentrate only on those that can help you find more accurate information about what you are looking for. Here are some options for how you can do this:
  - Language. Select the language in which you want to receive the search results.
  - Region. Shows results published in a specific region. For example, a search on sites in Eastern Europe.
  - Update date. Find the pages that have updated data since the specified date.
  - Website or domain. If you want to narrow your search to a specific site, enter its name and you will only get results from that site.
  - Keywords. Decide where exactly they should appear: in the headings or in the body of the articles.
  - Safe search. Select Show Closest Results. If you want to exclude potentially inappropriate articles from search results, select "filter to exact results."
  - Reading level. Change your search criteria to suit your reading level.
  - File type. Find pages with files in the required format, it can be PDF or Word Doc (.doc).
  - Use rights. Select the pages on which the material is posted for free use.
4. Click Advanced Search.
  
  Review your results. Check if the articles you need were found or not. If you still cannot find what you are looking for, you can go back to the advanced Google search menu and refine your search query, or vice versa, make it more general.
- Start account Google in order to access tools and enhance search capabilities.
- Many browsers have a built-in search bar into which you can type in queries for both the Google search engine and other systems. In this case, you can directly search through this string instead of going to the Google site.
- The same search query may return different results over several days.
- You can set your preferences for Google search using the Settings link next to the search bar.
- If you want to exercise voice search Google, you need to download the Google app on your iPhone, Android phone, and other mobile devices that support installation google apps... After downloading the application, you can select "voice search" and say any words that interest you. The search will start after you start speaking.

Hello dear readers of the blog site. A couple of months ago, I wrote about the features of promotion specifically for this search engine, arguing that I cannot but repay the company with the same coin, which brings more than half of all visitors to my blog. What do you think has happened since then?

That's right, everything turned upside down and now Google brings more than half of all visitors to my blog. I am a little afraid that after this article he will also turn his back on me, but still I will risk it. Although it is worth it, because now it is one of the most expensive and promising companies in the world.

And the very quality of Google search is in many ways superior to the analogue from the Runet mirror (read about that), but the majority still sit in Yandex mainly by force of habit (like me, in fact).

History of the Google.com search engine

So, the history of the development of this company can be counted from 1996, although officially search system began to work only in the fall of 1998 (it turns out that Google users lagged behind Yandex for a year, but nevertheless managed to catch up).

It was in 1996 that the prototype of today's search engine began to work on the campus of Stanford University, where Sergei Brin and Larry Page, now not unknown in the world, were studying in graduate school at that time.

Both of these gentlemen were born in 1973 (practically the same age) and both came from professorial families with Jewish roots. Moms and dads of both founders of Google were engaged in mathematics (taught) and computer technology, which, in fact, piqued the interest of their children in these areas of science. Both Sergey Brin and Larry Page have always focused on getting a high-quality specialized education (well done, what can I say).

They had, however, a difference in origin. Sergey Brin was born in the Soviet Union in the glorious city of Moscow and was taken out by his parents in 1979 to the states under the program of emigration of Jewish families. And Larry Page was already originally a born American, although, in fact, this is not so important, because Sergei was only six years old when he ceased to be our compatriot. Remarkably, Brin still speaks Russian very well.

If you read the history of Yandex, you probably noticed that in fact it appeared as a development of the topic that its creators were engaged in when they were scientists. The same can be said for Google.com. Brin and Page, as graduate students at Stanford, tackled the problem of searching through massive unstructured data sets. Initially, they wanted to tie it to something related to the definition of the most popular goods, but they just came across the problem of searching on the Internet.

The search engines available at that time were struggling to cope with their task. The SERPs had a very low correlation with what the user wanted to see in response to their query. The fact is that then the main marker (factor) by which it was carried out in the issuance was frequency of use of words from the user's request in the document.

It is clear that such a selection criterion is very easy to cheat on the part of webmasters by simply increasing the nausea of texts. Imagine how much time has passed since text spam appeared, which search engines have just begun to seriously fight and eradicate (because other factors have appeared that can significantly reduce the importance of the frequency of occurrence of keys in the text when ranking).

Here you go. From childhood, Larry Page, using the example of his parents who moved in scientific circles, saw and understood that the authority of a scientist largely depends on how many scientific works they refer to him as a primary source or as an authoritative specialist. The more links, the more authoritative the name of the scientist. Is it logical?

It makes sense, of course, but what does Google have to do with it? The thing is, Page had the idea to transfer this ranking system to Internet searches. He associated scientists with individual documents (not websites, but individual web pages), and links on the Internet have existed since back in 1989 (by the way, a couple of years later, it was Tim who founded).

Well, as a result, a well-known ranking factor appeared, which is still taken into account by search engines - PageRank... This term is compound. Rank - means ranking, but Page can mean either a web page in English spelling, or that this ranking parameter was invented by none other than Page (which is Larry).

But this is not the point, because PageRank has revolutionized and allowed to raise the quality of search for the future of Google to unattainable heights. In general, for general development, you can read the article about, in which I tried to explain their essence on my fingers, or look diagonally my largest creation on this blog, which is entirely devoted to it.

The PR made it possible to take into account, when ranking documents, not only the quantity, but also the quality of links leading to a particular web page. Well, the quality of the link, accordingly, depended on the number of incoming backlinks to the donor page (in SEO, it is customary to call the one from whom the link leads, and the acceptor - the one to whom it is linked).

Those. This is where the concept of the static weight of pages on the Internet appears, according to which the quality of the links leading from them is assessed. All this disgrace was calculated by Google in several passes (iterations) and was (at least at that time) an excellent ranking factor. In general, the PageRank topic is not so obvious, so for a detailed acquaintance, you will have to read the articles mentioned just above.

Well, we will return to google stories and see how two talented gentlemen from the stronghold of democracy managed to implement the idea of ranking documents global network in life and in passing to earn on this twenty billion greens (although for them it was not an end in itself, but simply became the result of their work, which is foolish to refuse).

First of all, to check the functionality of the Page Rank calculation program, it was necessary to obtain a huge amount of data. Larry Page decided that he could for this purpose download the entire Internet to your computer than plunged into bewilderment of their leaders.

However, at the expense of Stanford University, Larry and Sergey were able to assemble from components (this made it possible for the same money to get three more iron components than when buying already assembled servers) the required number of computers and launch their spider (a program that copies the web pages she found on the Internet) ...

By the way, I note that Larry and Sergey remained true to their idea - Google is now the world's number one computer assembler(significantly ahead of Dell and HP) while not selling a single server, but using all of them for their data centers, which, according to rough estimates, have more than a million units worldwide. This allows them to obtain significantly higher performance at the same costs and not save on redundancy, which makes it an absolute leader in speed and reliability.

But back to history. So, as a result, Brin and Page's brainchild has become a search engine for all Stanford University users. Sergey and Larry asked their first users to express their impressions and comments on the work of the search, tried to take them into account and refine them (in fact, this was the alpha testing stage). Search became available in 1997 at google.stanford.edu... An application has been made from Stanford for search technologies using PageRank.

As you can see, in URL address already in use word google(although there was a time when the search algorithm had the name BackRub, because it was built on the account of backlinks), which was invented the day before as one of the possible names of the search engine. The origin of this word is due to misspelling Googol term, which denotes a tricky number consisting of one and one hundred zeros after it.

In general, at first there was a proposal to call the search Google Plex (in the correct spelling Googolplex - a dozen to the degree googol), but it seemed too long and settled on the mentioned term (for some reason, it was not written correctly as a result, but they did not change k. was acquired almost immediately by the domain Google.com). With this name, the creators probably wanted to emphasize or predict the enormity of the index base of the future world leader in search.

Google and Yandex - common moments in development and formation

A distinctive feature of the main page of Google at that time was its complete asceticism, which has remained to this day. Compare (there sometimes, under the search bar, you can see a banner, the cost of placing it for a week is equal to the cost of an apartment in Moscow):

And look at home page Google.ru:

Feel the difference, as they say. In the distant nineties, all sites and portals were full of colorful banners and inscriptions (ala today's Terehoff, and I am also not without a sin), which caused genuine irritation to Larry and Sergei. Therefore, while working on the design of the main page of his search, Sergey Brin used the principle of minimalism, allowing himself only to paint the letters of the Google logo in different colors.

It turned out well, but there was a curious case when a test group, which was tasked with finding something there through Google.com, sat for several minutes in front of a computer screen with a rather puzzled look. It turns out that they were waiting for the main page to load completely (there were no sites on the Internet in the style of minimalism at that time).

Therefore, the developers had to increase the font at the bottom of the main page, so that it would become a kind of marker for the end of the page loading for users.

Do you know what is most interesting in the history of Google? That it could have ended around this place. As I mentioned earlier, for Sergey and Larry, the main thing was to get a high-quality education, and the work on the search engine took all the time and did not leave him to study. What do you think they came up with?

Surely, sell all rights to use PageRank technology and put an end to the development of the Google project. Interestingly, they offered their product for a relatively small amount of one lemon in greens to such well-known titans as AltaVista, and other companies that are now out of the limelight. Remarkably, AltaVista even managed to knock down the price by a quarter, but in the end it still didn't buy it.

After that, Larry Page and Sergey decided to give up their studies (many of us made the same decision even in view of much less weighty reasons) and get down to work closely with the refinement and promotion of an innovative, by that time, search engine with an unknown name. Google.

It all came down to the fact that development needed money to buy servers. Without this, it would be impossible to move on, because even with the relatively low popularity of Google at that time, it already required quite large resources for storing and processing numerous user requests on the fly.

So, let me remind you that the domain was registered in September 1997, and exactly a year later it was already registered Google Inc... A few days before that, Sergey Brin and Larry Page managed to get their first development check from a competent guy from Sun Microsystems. They say that when the check was issued, the company as such did not yet exist, therefore, having indicated the name in the check, already at the official registration of the company it was necessary to focus on this name (otherwise there would be a problem with cashing money).

This amount was spent on the purchase of components and the assembly of new servers, which were designed to process the ever-increasing number of requests to Google.com, as the popularity of the search engine grew. Although even despite the fact that at the end of 1998 the Beta inscription still flaunted on their main page, the leading media outlets writing about IT technologies have already paid attention to the young search engine and expressed their positive reviews about her work.

The popularity of Googol grew and the received one hundred thousand greens were quickly spent on components. The guys again ran up against the wall, but again they managed to accomplish the incredible - to get twenty-five greens for development from two venture capital firms, while not driving themselves into bondage (leaving reserves the full right to manage the company and solving all issues at your own discretion). Well done, what can I say.

Again, I never tire of drawing parallels between the development of bourgeois and Russian search. Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich in the same way had to look for money for development from investors, and in the same way they managed to defend their right to manage the company at their own discretion.

In general, there is a lot in common between the ideologues of Yandex and Google (smart, educated and intelligent people) and the main thing that unites them is the desire to develop their projects in the first place (and get a kick out of it), and not stupidly make money (although not without it):

It is clear that this could not go on indefinitely. The project must generate income, or at least be at the level of self-sufficiency. True, there are examples of large Internet projects that do not make money on their offspring. ... However, other wealthy companies, whose owners understand the importance of Wiki to the Internet, help her stay afloat.

Such an understanding company is Google, which has donated several pages to Wiki. By the way, the owner social network"" Also recently threatened to transfer Wikipedia about the greenery, which does him credit and puts him on a par with the Greats.

But Googl (as well as Yandex) did not dare to follow the path of unmercenaries. Sergey Brin and Larry Page had to give up a little the principles of rejection of advertising on the pages of their brainchild. But they did it very elegantly and their way of delivering advertising is much more positive to users than banners that were commonly used then.

I'm talking about contextual advertising Google AdWords, which is text strings with a link to the advertiser's website. Moreover, ads are shown in strict accordance with the exact query entered by the user in search bar... Such advertising does not create discomfort for users, but it brings it truly fantastic income:

By the way, Googl is not greedy and allows any webmasters to earn on contextual advertising by showing it on their sites. True, for this he retains about half of the amount that the advertiser pays, but this is quite a logical payment for using the advertiser base. Many webmasters live only with the desire to get through.

Since we are here periodically comparing Google and Yandex, I will say that the Runet mirror has a way to make a living is no different from the leader of the world search - all the same context, but all this is called already. Well, it also allows webmasters to make money on their own context (for half the margin) and for this it was created, with which you can work both directly and through partner service centers (I work through Profit Partner).

Google launched its context in 2000, and Yandex in 2002. The question of the original source of the idea probably does not arise. Although, the founder did not immediately use the payment scheme only for clicks made by users on advertisers' ads, but went to this for several years.

Well, and the idea of organizing a continuous auction for the sale of certain search queries(when you enter which will show advertisers' ads) is generally a brilliant solution that allows you to significantly increase revenues and to simplify and facilitate the pricing scheme as much as possible. As they say, hit the bull's-eye.

In 2001, Google.com was in the black by as much as seven greens, and now the profit of the world search leader is in the billions. In addition to the American audience, it has long been focused on the whole world. Search can be done in 200 languages on various regional sites. In addition, in fact, search technologies, this company during its existence, it has opened a lot of related services, starting with and, and ending.

He has even encroached on the reign of the most popular in the world, opposing it with his brainchild called. Even at the dominance of Melkosoft in the operating system market, he is ready to swing by developing his OS based on Chrome. Well, in the market of mobile operating systems, he has already made a revolution with his Android, which is now installed on most tablets and smartphones.

I already wrote that Yandex in 2011 entered the IPO and very successfully became an OJSC with a fairly large margin for itself. In 2004, Google entered an IPO similarly, although not as successfully as it could have been. However, in both cases, the ideologues of the companies still remained at the helm and can choose their own development paths and not be led by anyone. In principle, this is good, because both teams are enthusiastic.

Google.ru - features of promotion and SEO optimization

Now let's talk a little about Google and how it differs from a similar action for Yandex. Of course, by and large, it is not worth making special distinctions for these search engines, but they have their own characteristics and different ranking factors are taken into account in them in different ways.

Well, I think it is clear that we will talk about the Russian-language Google.ru, because.com carries out ranking according to a different formula and several other factors are taken into account (we are backward, whatever you say). I already wrote about the market share of the Russian Internet search market:

But it is worth considering the fact that selling queries are asked much more often in Yandex (maybe even several times more often), but the share information requests higher in the bourgeois analogue. Therefore, blogs like mine can have a higher conversion rate from Google than from the Russian Internet mirror.

All of this has to do with targeting the audience of these search engines. Let no one be offended by me, but in Yandex, ordinary people who want to buy something or have fun prevail, and in the brainchild of Page and Brin there are intellectuals (well, something like that) who want to learn something. Personally, I habitually use a domestic product, but if he does not give me an exhaustive answer, then I turn to the bourgeois, and he, as a rule, does not disappoint me.

Probably, all of you have already experienced for yourself that Google not only works faster, indexes new pages faster, but also that you can get to the Top much faster in it.

The main factor here is, most likely, the fact that Yandex introduced a lag some time ago (from several months to a year, depending on the subject of the search query), after which the backlinks (purchased) on the document begin to be taken into account (thus it increased their income, because during the period required for promotion to the Top, the site owner will have to attract users through Yandex Direct).

In Google, this lag is significantly less (if at all) and you can get to the Top quite quickly, having good and not spammed text on a decent site, as well as a certain amount external links.

A bit of a minor fact, but I remembered that the bourgeois search will (from the same article) lead to the same page only if they are hash links.

Well, and again, it seems to me that Google loves texts like those that you can find on this blog more than Yandex - large in volume and structured (headings using H1-H6 tags, OL or UL lists, well, you could still use tables for variety).

Anyway, structured writing will give you an edge. Search engines take into account the density of keys in passages, and lists, tables and headings allow create more passages, which means it will be possible to use a larger number of key entries without the risk of falling under.

Google Regions represent countries, and not individual subjects of Russia or Ukraine, as in Yandex. Therefore, you should take this into account, as well as take into account the factors by which it can attribute your site to a particular region (read more below).

He also has one feature - he pays more attention in ranking to the indicators of a specific web page (the relevance of which he calculates) and pays less attention to the indicators of the entire site as a whole. This means in comparison with Yandex, for promotion in which it is very important to have a trust resource.

What does it give us? It turns out that a young project that does not have sufficient trust is much easier to break into the Top Google than in the Top mirrors of Runet, provided that the article is high-quality, optimized and well-pumped links from quality donors (for example, from the exchange of eternal links or from the exchange of articles) and from internal pages the same site (and along with external links contributes to the build-up of static and dynamic page weight).

For example, my blog for many frequency queries is in the Top Googla, but not in the Top of the Runet Mirror. It turns out that either the general trust of the resource is still not enough for this, or the backlinks have not yet started working due to the lag used, or these documents are under the filter for re-optimization of texts (which is also possible).

The Google.ru search engine attaches great importance to the presence and number of incoming links (external and internal) to the document and more respects direct occurrences search query. In Yandex, the link factor is somewhat less important and it will be very important there not to overdo it with direct occurrences, use more word forms and dilutions. But, again, search algorithms are evolving and over time they will come closer to what we now have in the global search with the ..com extension.
I have not checked and felt it myself, but it is believed that end-to-end links (placed from all pages of the resource, for example, in the donor's sidebar) work well in Google, because for him, it is the quantitative ratio that is important link mass... Yandex, on the other hand, simply sticks together drafts and it is unlikely that their total weight exceeds the weight of a regular external link from one single page of the same donor.

Search traffic- this is manna from heaven for any owner of a web resource, the most stable and, as a rule, the main source of traffic to the site. For example, for me it is about three quarters of the total attendance. Therefore, I never tire of repeating in almost every article - take all the smallest nuances of search engine optimization seriously. What may seem like a trifle or overkill to you can be a key factor in the success of your project.

True, there are also quite a few nuances in compliance with all the requirements, the main of which is the rapid change in the rules of the game by search engines. Of course, the main basic and fundamental optimization techniques remain unchanged (at least for a long time), but nevertheless Yandex is characterized by a sharp change in attitudes towards certain methods of promotion.

Previously, with Google, one could feel more relaxed, because she was not so feverish. But the spring of 2012 came and the zoo came with it: Penguin and Panda... They came at once on a global scale and affected all countries. After that, the search results began to constantly shake and almost every second site in the world suffered from these filters to one degree or another.

It was like a bolt from the blue. Everyone unanimously scolded Yandex, and then abruptly switched to its bourgeois competitor. The Penguin began to punish the poor quality of the incoming link mass to the site, and the Panda - for over-optimization of the content. One gets the feeling that the developers have set themselves the task of making Google promotion as unpredictable as possible(today you are in the Top, and tomorrow in ...). Why do they need it?

Most likely the reason is money. If SEO does not provide at least some guarantees and stability, then everyone will begin to even more actively use an alternative method, namely, buying contextual advertising. Actually, this is what is happening now. As long as there are search engines, the situation will deteriorate more and more.

But nevertheless, search traffic is generated precisely from Yandex and Google, and in many cases these two search engines will give approximately the same number of visitors. This means that it will be necessary to take into account the nuances of optimization for both.

Global (Google.com) and regional search (.ru, .ua)

To begin with, Google is positioning itself as a search engine for the entire world of the Internet. In this regard, it has both a global search engine.com, which works with English-speaking users from all over the world, and regional search engines (for example, .ru or .com.ua related to Russia and Ukraine).

In the global google.com, in addition to a huge number of visitors, there is a huge number of indexed sites in the database (there is a huge collection there), and hence the conclusion that it will be very difficult to get into the top results there. In addition, in the world search engine it will be almost impossible to take a place in the top for high-frequency queries in a short time.

This is primarily due to large quantity filters that are used. Global search engine.com uses pessimization, thereby exercising strict control over the quality of donors (sites from which links to your resource will be placed), over the development of your project, over the speed of link building, etc. things.

As a result, only resources that have existed and developed for a rather long time will be in the top for highly competitive queries (long enough for the search to be convinced of their consistency).

At the same time, in regional search engines (for example, google.ru or.com.ua) it is quite possible to get to the top for a high-frequency query within one or two months after the creation of the project. This is due to the fact that many of the filters used in.com do not work there, or they do not work in full.

But he is gradually transferring and strengthening the filters of his regional search engines, so this problem will also have to be faced in the near future when promoting. Actually, this has already happened. After the arrival of Panda and Penguin, everyone became equal.

For all its sophistication and perfection, the search engine cannot guarantee one hundred percent correct definition of the region to which your resource belongs. As a result of this, a rather unpleasant situation may arise, consisting in the absence of your site in the search results of the desired regional search engine Google (we were promoting, say, under England, and the search decided that your site belongs to Australia, as a result of which your project will not appear in the English issue ).

Even the language of the content of your resource cannot serve guarantor of the correctness of the definition of the region... Alas and ah, even the fact that your site is in Albanian does not at all mean that it will appear in Albanian Google SERP... How does he determine the region to which this or that project belongs, and how can we, from our side, help him make the right choice?

Everything is pretty simple here. First of all, when trying to attribute a resource to a particular region, Google looks at which Internet project belongs to. If the domain clearly indicates a regional affiliation (for example: zone.RU - Russia, .DE - Germany, or .US - states), then the search engine will choose the region for the site just relying on this.

Therefore, if you use for your site Domain name belonging to the zone of a particular country, then there should be no problems with the wrong choice of the region for your resource.

But your resource may well have a domain belonging to some common zone (like .COM or .NET). What guides the search when choosing a region in this case? It turns out that he analyzes Hosting server IP address where this project is located. Which country this IP address will belong to, to which region the site will be assigned.

Therefore, when creating a new project focused on promoting a certain region (country) in the Google search engine, you should take care that it immediately and accurately determines the region of your site. To do this, you will need to either select a name in the domain zone of the required region, or use hosting with the IP addresses of the servers of the country you need.

If for your resource he did not correctly determine the regional affiliation, then, in principle, you can add to the keywords of those search queries for which you are moving, an additional word specifying the regional affiliation (for example, “ search engine promotion Russia").

And in this case, your website will participate in the regional Google search for the country you need (Russia), but not for a high-frequency query ("search engine promotion"), but for a much less high-frequency query ("... Russia").

If, on the contrary, you want to create a resource focused on many countries, then be sure to choose a domain name from the general zone (like .COM or .NET), and choose hosting with the IP address of the country from which the largest number of visitors is expected.

Setting the site region in the Yandex search engine

The Yandex search engine has recently also begun to distinguish between sites by region. But in this case, the regions are not countries (as in Google), but the regions of Russia. The regional affiliation of the site is determined based on the mention of the region on its pages or based on the settings made by the owner of the resource in.

After you log in from your account in the webmasters panel, you will need to select the "Site Geography" - "Region" items from the left menu:

As you can see from the above screenshot, Yandex did not define a region for my blog: The content of the site does not have a pronounced regional affiliation. Otherwise, you will need to enter the desired site region in the appropriate field and indicate in the field below the URL of your blog page, where the name of this region will be found.

Once again, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that you should choose hosting not only for reasons of the correct definition of the region (with the IP address of the country in which you want to see your resource), but also for the degree of its reliability. In terms of site optimization, reliable and stable hosting is very important, because constantly for search engine bots, as a result or other host failures, it can lead to a decrease in the site's position in search engine results.

Therefore, approach responsibly for your project. For me personally, on this moment, after a series of experiments impresses most of all InfoBox provider, my first impressions about which you can read in the article on.

In short, InfoBox, at the moment, has a lot of bonuses (30 days of freebies plus a free domain forever, if you pay for hosting for three months) and an excellent technical support service.

If you think that I am crucifying here about this hosting only in the hope of getting it, then I hasten to reassure you, because InfoBox exists only for legal entities, and I am a natural person. It's just really not a bad hosting and I sincerely recommend it to you, without any benefit for myself.

How Google Search Engine Works

In principle, there are no special differences in the logic of the work of Google from the work of other search engines. I already wrote a fairly detailed article about, and almost all of this can be attributed to our hero. Therefore, without dwelling on the details, I will try to briefly describe how the whole thing works from the point of view of determining the documents that are most relevant to a particular request.

So, in Google, as well as in other search engines, two basic principles are used, guided by which it determines the position of a document (by document, I mean a web page) in the search results for a specific request. First, it analyzes the textual content of the document, thus determining its subject matter and making a count.

And already on the basis of these two factors (the content of the document and the link ranking), he determines the position of the site in the search results for a particular search query. Google searches not on real sites, but on the so-called collection, which represents all the documents indexed by the search engine on the network.

Indexing is reading the contents of a page and storing all the words it contains as inverse indexes, which take into account the location of a given word in the document and the frequency of its use.

The saved copies of documents are also added to the search base, on the basis of which the search engine will then form it for certain requests. The so-called search bots are engaged in scanning sites on the network, which move from document to document using links leading from these documents.

How can Google's search bots find new pages on a resource? First, a search bot can receive a task to visit a particular document after you add the address of a particular page to. Secondly, a bot can index a document by clicking on a link from another or from your own resource.

From this we can conclude that good and well-thought-out navigation will be useful not only for your visitors, but also be able to speed up search engines. One of the ways of such acceleration is intended specifically for bots.

Backlinks to this document are collected by the Google search engine when indexing those documents on which they were posted. As a result, when the user enters a specific query into the search box, he will analyze and find all documents that have at least something to do with given request, and then, among them, sorting will be carried out according to the relevance (correspondence) of documents to the given request.

When calculating relevance, the content of the document is taken into account, as well as the quantity and quality of backlinks leading to it.

Main and supplemental googol indices

The material capabilities of the Google company (both monetary and hardware) allow this search engine to index all pages in a row and store them in its index base (collection). Smaller search engines, including Yandex, cannot afford this luxury and remove duplicate content (for example) and other substandard documents from the index.

But our hero is not like that - he has so much power that he is able to store in his collection all the documents (web pages) indexed by him on the network.

True, for webmasters, this is of little use, because the Google base consists of two parts: main index and additional(supplemental, it is also sometimes called snotty or simply snot). So, it searches only the documents that are in the main index, and documents (web pages) that have fallen into the snot are practically not involved in the search, except only if there are basically no answers relevant to the request at all. And the likelihood of such a case is extremely small.

I have already written about ad hoc and therefore indirectly assess the quality of your web project. Although you can yourself, without using any services, see how many pages of your site is in the main Google index.

First, enter the following query into the search bar:

Site: site

replacing my blog's domain name with my own. As a result, a page with the issue will open, where all the pages of your resource that are in the index will be listed. There will be documents from not only the main, but also from the supplemental index. The total number of pages of your resource indexed by this search engine will be shown below the query string:

Now, remembering the total number of pages in the index, modify the query in the Google search bar to the following:

Site: site / &

replacing my blog's domain name with my own. As a result, a page with the issue will open, where only those pages of your site will be listed, which are in the main index:

Only these documents, which are in the main index, will be searched. I have already written about the reasons that can lead to pages getting into an additional, not the main index, but I will repeat myself a little and, perhaps, add a few new ones. possible reasons why the page might end up in googol snot:

not the uniqueness of the page content (full or partial duplication of the text of another page of your resource or any other)
too little text on the web page (pictures, although they are taken into account by the image search, as well as hyperlinks are not counted). I can't say exactly how much text in characters or words should be in a document to output it from Google snot, but I already wrote about what the size of the text should be for its best optimization for search queries.
the page can get into an additional index if you forgot to register for it
also snot threatens pages for which the mega-tags Title or Description are not unique, or consist of one word

Video from youtube.com about the principles of Google promotion:

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site

How it all started

Personal information was posted on the Internet, while occupying the memory of the World Wide Web, they seemed to "settle" on the Web, which is why the name of the information unit of the Internet, site (literally translated as "sitting") arose.

Soon, site owners, especially businessmen, wanted to be known on the web. The sites were advertised in all sorts of ways, even by distributing leaflets.

But, as you know, supply creates demand. To buy a product, the client will look for other options for a long time, for example, cheaper ones. There was a need for search, and the Internet had to satisfy it: sites were developed focused on the search for goods, services, and soon information. It was they who received the name of search engines or systems, one of which was Google.

Supernova outbreak

Responsible for the birth of Google are Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The innovation met with enthusiasm, and the result was Google, which, 20 years later, took the place of the # 1 search engine worldwide. The domain of the search engine was registered in September 1997, and a year later, Google Inc. was opened specifically for Google.

How Google works

The search engine is constantly acquiring more and more new possibilities in terms of algorithms and functionality.

Any search engine algorithm is based on software templates that rank sites by matching queries to search results and by level of importance. In 1997. the algorithms counted the number of external links to the site. A large number of links was the key to high positions in the search engine results. Over time, the authority of the site on which external links were posted began to be taken into account, and the term "link weight" was introduced.

Google gained worldwide fame as it improved its navigation in every possible way and made it easier to find information. As soon as the user wrote part of a word, options for its ending appeared in a pop-up menu, any of which could be clicked on.

Google in SEO

The search engine and search engine promotion are inextricably linked with each other, because the webmaster strives in every possible way to improve their positions, but without indexing the site, this is impossible. Therefore, the webmaster, in order to attract the attention of the Google crawler, optimizes his site using white and illegal, black SEO methods. The latter are best avoided, otherwise you can get caught in a ban or filter.

Each page of the site is assigned a certain degree of quality, a rank - PR, or Page Rank. The coincidence of the sounding of the name of Larry Page and Page Rank even led to the fact that there is an opinion on the Internet that PR is based on the liking or antipathy of the search engine creator to a particular site.

Given the authority and scope of Google, SEOs are trying to promote their sites in this particular search engine. But a huge number of external links and forbidden, black optimization methods do not guarantee positions in the TOP at all. First of all, here you need to focus on the desires of users.

The home page of the world's largest search engine, set as the start page, allows you to automatically load the main page of Google when you start the browser and immediately use its search and others useful services... That is why the question of how to make Google is so popular among Internet users. home page... We have already considered on the pages of our site about solving a similar problem for. Now it's Google's turn.

Changing the start page in Mozilla Firefox... We launch the fire fox, that is, the browser. For the demonstration, we used the latest at the time of this writing. Firefox version 13.0.1. In the address bar, type the address google.com and press the "Enter" key (Enter). In the upper left corner, left-click on the orange button called Firefox. In the menu that appears, hover the cursor over the "Settings" item and in the next submenu that appears, click on the most top line"Settings". In the window that opens, go to the "Basic" tab, if initially you were not there. In the "Launch" group, check that the line "When Firefox starts:" was "Show home page" and click the "Use the current page" button and click "OK", thereby saving the changes.

Change the start page to Google chrome .
Chrome has a very different interface from other browsers. Therefore, we will consider the question of how to make Google the start page in Chrome in more detail. As a visual aid, we will use Google Chrome 20.0.1132.4. We proceed in the same way as in the previous browser. We launch the browser and enter google.com into its address bar. Press "Enter" (Enter). After the main page is loaded, Google proceeds to install it as a start page. Make sure that no web pages are open on other tabs. After that, click on the image of the wrench in the upper right corner (to the right of the address bar) and left-click on the "Settings" line. In the left column, go to the "Settings" section, if you didn't get into them right away. In the section "Initial group" click on the link " Following pages: add ". In the middle of the page, a window will open that prompts you to select start pages... In it, press the "Use current pages" button and confirm the changes by pressing the "OK" button. The start page has been successfully installed.

Changing the start page in Opera.
We will use Opera 12.0. We change the start page in the same way as for the two previous browsers. Open the Google home page by typing google.ru in the address bar and pressing the Enter key. After launch, in the upper left corner, click on the button with the inscription "Opera" and the partially visible letter O from the Opera logo. On the highlighted menu, move the cursor to the "Settings" item and in the appeared submenu to the "General settings" item. There you can see that all these actions can be performed by simply pressing the combination Ctrl keys and F12. In the proposed settings window, go to the "Basic" tab, if you did not immediately get to it. In the line "At startup:" we set the value "Start from home page", and below in the line "Home:" we set desired page, in this case it will be google.ru by clicking on the button “ Current page"And clicking" OK "to save the settings.

Change the start page to Internet Explorer 9 .
In order to make Google the home page in Internet Explorer, you also need to launch it and open the Google home page by entering the google.ru address in the address bar. After that, click on the gear-shaped icon in the upper right corner of the browser and left-click in the "Internet Options" menu bar. If you need the "General" tab in the window that opens. Open it if you happen to be somewhere else. In the group of settings "Home page" click on the button "Current" and confirm the changes by first clicking the "Apply" button, and then "OK".

Changing the start page in Safari.
Our story would be incomplete if we did not look at how to make Google the home page in Safari. Of course, this browser is not as popular as the four previous ones, but it also takes pride of place in the list of browsers. It is especially popular among Mac people, or Apple computer users.

In preparing this article, we used Safari 5.1.7, which was the latest at that time.

Safari is also easily customizable like the previous four. To do this, open the browser itself. In its address bar, type google.ru and press the Enter key. Further actions will be different for operating rooms. Windows systems and Mac OS X.
In Windows, you need to click on the gear image in the upper right corner, select the "Settings ..." item from the drop-down menu. The same actions can be performed by simply pressing the shortcut keys Ctrl (Control) and "," (comma).

In Mac OS X, you need to click on the Safari section in the general menu bar at the top of the screen with the active browser and click on the "Preferences" line in it, or call the settings by pressing the Cmd (command) and "," (comma) keyboard shortcuts.

Further actions will be valid for both Windows and Mac OS X. In the line "Open in new windows:" we check that "Home page" is displayed, and in the line "Home page" two lines below we load the address of the main page of Google by clicking on button "Current page".
If it is asked that you really want to change the home page, then agree with it. Further, in the best traditions of Apple, you do not need to click any "OK" and "Apply", but simply close the settings window and they will be saved.

Of course, this is not the only way to install Google with a start page. For example, you may initially not open the Google home page and not click the "Current Page" button, but instead write the correct address in the appropriate line. But, these are all special cases that you can figure out on your own after reading this article.

History of creation

The Google search engine was created as a curriculum project by Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They worked on the BackRub search engine in 1995, and in 1998 they created the Google search engine based on it.

Site indexing

Ranking algorithm

Meta Keywords tag is not taken into account when ranking sites.

PageRank

Google uses an algorithm to calculate PageRank. PageRank is one of the supporting factors when ranking sites in search results. PageRank is not the only one, but very important way determining the position of the site in Google search results. Google uses the PageRank of the pages it searches to determine the order in which those pages appear in search results.

Search queries

Query syntax

Google's interface contains a rather sophisticated query language that allows you to limit your search to specific domains, languages, file types, etc. For example, a search for "intitle: Google site: wikipedia.org" will return all Wikipedia articles in all languages that contain the word Google.

Search in found

For some search results, Google provides a repeat search box that allows the user to find what they are looking for within a particular website. This idea came from how users used search. According to software engineer Ben Lee and product manager Jack Menzel, “teleporting” on the web is exactly what helps Google users complete their searches. Google has taken this concept one step further, and instead of just "teleporting", which means a user just needs to enter part of the website name into Google to find the site they want (it is not necessary to remember the entire address), users can enter keywords to search within the selected site. It turned out that users often have a hard time finding what they are looking for inside a corporate website.

Although users are new to this search tool, it has caused controversy among some publishers and distributors. Google search results pages display pay per click advertisements from competing companies that base their advertisements on brands. “While the service could help increase traffic, some users are 'merging' as Google uses brand awareness to sell advertisements usually to competing companies. " To mitigate this conflict, Google suggested disabling this feature for interested companies.