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Civics CBA: Google Search Tools

Google News Timeline

Google News Timeline is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.

Google News

Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader's personalized interests.

Google Fast Flip

Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to "flip" through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches.

Google Image Swirl

Google Image Swirl organizes image search results based on their visual and semantic similarity and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface.

Google Maps

View maps and directions.

Google Alerts

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

Google Sets

Enter a few items from a set of things. Next, press Large Set or Small Set and we'll try to predict other items in the set.

Google Directory

Search the web, organized by topic or category.

Google Code Search

Developer tools, APIs and resources.

What is a library database?

No Flash plugin installed.

Google Search Tools

Google Search

Google Custom Search

With Google Custom Search, you can harness the power of Google to create a customized search experience for your own website.

Google Timeline

Google Timeline offers a chronological search option. Click on a bar in the timeline and display results during that time period. Look for Timeline in the left navigation bar after your initial search.

 

Google Dictionary

Google Dictionary is not difficult to use. You simply search whatever word you would like to and it shows you the meaning and so much more, along with the web definitions and usage examples.

Google Reading Levels

Google Reading Level sorts your search into three levels of Basic, Intermediate and Advanced.

 

Spacesaver

Google Images

Search for images on the web.

Google Books

Book Search works just like web search. Try a search on Google Books or on Google.com. When we find a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Google Squared

Fetch and organize facts from across the web. Google Squared automatically constructs a table of facts about any category you specify.

Google Blogs

Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves. Whether you're looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice.

Google Advanced Search

This will highlight the more advanced features of Google Web Search.

Google Videos

Search for videos on the web.