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 Images: Google Images indexes more than a billion images in JPEG, GIF, and PNG (Portable Network Graphics) formats. The Advanced Image Search lets users limit searches by filetype, size of image, coloration, and site or domain. Google Image Search Book Search: To use the book search, simply preface any search with the keyword book or books. The first three results, if there are any matches, will come from.

Groups: Google acquired Deja, the last remaining Usenet newsgroup search engine, in 2001. Even before that, Google began its own Usenet archive in August 2000. The complete Usenet archive, more than a billion messages dating back to 1995, is searchable via Google Groups. In 2004 Google introduced "a new version of Google Groups that includes a mailing list and discussion forum creation option to rival Yahoo Groups' similar service. Also new is the ability for registered users to keep track of their favorite topics using the star feature. By clicking the star next to a favorite topic, that topic is added to the user's "My starred topics" page. Postings now appear in minutes in Google Groups rather than the hours it used to take.

Google Groups still offers both a simple and advanced interface to search the newsgroup postings. Both interfaces are extremely easy to use. Google Groups not only returns results (sorted by relevance or date), it also shows you the most relevant groups for your topic. So a search on the term oceanography suggests I might want to take a look at the related groups and. Newsgroup searching in general and Google Groups are discussed in greater detail in a later section. Google Groups Mobile SMS Search: This service is different from the SMS text messaging that has been available at AOL, Yahoo, Live Search, etc., for some time. The new Google SMS permits queries using mobile technology. Google's SMS service offers similar services but with different shortcuts. It is open to all US subscribers using a "major" US cell phone provider and also to most UK mobile subscribers. The US number is 46645 (GOOGL on most phones) and for the UK it is 64664 (6GOOG on most phones). Google explains how to use the SMS search service and offers a number of sample queries at its new SMS webpage. Google SMS Patent Search (beta): New for 2007, Google Patent Search now has its own discrete page. Users could always search for US patents by number, but Google decided to create a separate page for these searches. The new site offers many advanced search options, including options to search by patent number, title, inventor's name, assignee's name, US and international classifications, and issue or filing date range. Even more valuable than the search options are the view choices. Rh