Google Search and Chrome Vocabulary

Domains

.gov, .com, .org, .net

Web Browser

A software application that allows a user to navigate on the Web.

Boolean Search

A type of search allowing users to combine keyword with operators such as AND, OR, and NOT

Google Chrome

Google's web browser

File Types

The extensions on the end of a file name that indicates what type of file it is .pdf, .docs, .jpg

URL

Uniform Resource Locator. It is the address for websites or documents available on the internet

Google Translate

a free multilingual machine translation service developed by Google, to translate text, speech, images, sites, or real-time video from one language into another

Google Scholar

a freely accessible search engine launched by Google in 2004 that provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature, such as published scientific or medical articles

Boolean Operator

a logical connector, such as AND, OR and NOT, added to a search phrase to either narrow or broaden the search results

Search Engine

a program used to search the internet for information using keywords or phrases or voice recognition

Google Books

a service from Google, Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned and stored in its digital database

Snippet

a short description of the web page

Google Finance

a website launched by google in 2006 that features business and enterprise headlines for many corporations including their financial decisions, stock market and major news events

Omnibox

address bar

Bookmarks

allow a user to tag a web page so that exact location is saved for future navigation

Sponsored result

an ad or information that has been paid for to be displayed in that position. Shading behind the text is an indicator

Filter

can limit a search to a specific criterion, such as a subjects area, etc.

Tools

the place in Google Search where you will find additional filters for each category, such as video, images, news, etc.

Advanced Search

the place under "settings" in Google Search where you can apply all of your filters at once