The results page is filled with information and links, most of which relate to your query.

• Google Logo: Click on the Google logo to go to Google's home page.

• Statistics Bar: Describes your search, includes

  • the number of results on the current results page
  • an estimate of the total number of results
  • the time your search took.

  Every underlined term in the statistics bar is linked to its dictionary definition.

• Tips: Sometimes Google displays a tip in a box just below the statistics bar.

  

  

  

• Search Results: Ordered by relevance to your query, with the result that Google considers the most relevant listed first.

  Below are descriptions of some search-result components.

  • Page Title: (blue) The web page's title, if the page has one, or
    • its URL if the page has no title
    • if Google has not indexed all of the page's content.

  • Snippets: (black) Each search result usually includes one or more short excerpts of the text that matches your query with your search terms in boldface type and may provide you with
    

    • The information you are seeking
    • What you might find on the linked page
    • Ideas of terms to use in your subsequent searches

    When Google hasn't crawled a page, it doesn't include a snippet.

  • URL of Result: (green) Web address of the search result.

  • Size: (green) The size of the text portion of the web page. It is omitted for sites not yet indexed.

    For the sake of efficiency, Google searches only the first 101 kilobytes (approximately 17,000 words) of a web page.

  • Date: (green) Sometimes the date Google crawled a page appears just after the size of the page.

    Dates are included for pages that have recently had a fresh crawl.

  • Indented Result: When Google finds multiple results from the same website, it lists
    • the most relevant result first
    • the second most relevant page from that same site indented below it.

    Limiting the number of results from a given site to two ensures that

    • pages from one site will not dominate your search results
    • Google provides pages from a variety of sites.

  • More Results: When there are more than two results from the same site, access the remaining results from the "More results from..." link.

    When Google returns more than one page of results, you can view subsequent pages by clicking either

    • a page number
    • one of the "o"s in the whimsical "Gooooogle".

    

• Sponsored Links: Your results may include some clearly identified sponsored links (advertisements) relevant to your search.

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