Nowadays, when anyone can and will search for you online -- you're not the only one, Creeper(?) -- your Google results are your calling card.
You can search for anything you can imagine with fast speed Google Chrome browsing.
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They wanted to know what you were going to search for before you even knew yourself.
So, you know, the search for, you know, what is that great interactive experience is really what we think will drive the consumers, and we think we've got a great internal development group that has the best shot of delivering that.
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For starters, if you search for a restaurant on your phone, you can send it to your navigator so that you don't have to enter the address manually (and we all know how annoying that is).
If you do a PubMed search for BRCA1, you can indeed find over 9, 600 papers, as I did today.
When you search for something, that search not only determines the set of results you get, but also serves as a title for the page.
For instance, if you search for a friend in Foursquare, we show their full name in the results, but when you click through to their profile page you don't see their last name.
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Some insurers have smartphone apps that allow you to search for doctors, or you can tap websites like ZocDoc.com to find nearby doctors who take your insurance.
Google 's ( GOOG - news - people ) upcoming music search, which will provide playable links atop the search results when you search for a band or song.
You log onto the site and do a search for an artist you like, say Andy Warhol, and a specific price point.
As a little easter egg, if you search for "royal flush, " you'll bring up the posts that have received at least one of each emoticon.
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With Graph Search, you can search for people, photos, places and interests.
When you see a particular posting that interests you, plug the company name into LinkedIn and Facebook, and search for personal connection you may have within the organization.
You could, for example, hide an unflattering photograph of yourself from your timeline but if someone else posted that picture and tagged you in it, it could be found and displayed if people search for photos of you.
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If you search for a flight, Google now will keep you updated as to the process of the flight.
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And when you went to search for your favorite celebrity, you would find everything out there, not just photos they had been captioned in.
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You can search for specific types of pictures or you can just click on the most popular pictures on the opening page and then just continue clicking on the "more shots like these" button.
This means that some of the information that you search for the A9 toolbar, and the results that you get, can be linked to you personally.
The search box at the top of the screen lets you search for a place or a business, and the expanding information pane at the bottom of the screen shows relevant information, such as address, opening hours, ratings and reviews, images, directions and other information.
Search for Hammerpoint, you find only reference from articles, but nothing from Hammerpoint itself.
Instead of having to go and search for everything, you asked and you received.
The most important secret to making online job search sites work for you: Use them sparingly.
For marketers and retailers it comes down to this: your site had better look good and optimize well for search if you want to keep up your traffic.
When you search for risk factors for cardiac disease, obesity or any number of ailments, you likely won't see "your job" listed in any medical manual.
Google has indeed shown that search advertising makes money: for the one thing you know about search is that the person is looking for something.
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The search box is now entirely more useful, popping up intelligent cards beneath places you search for.
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