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select. You are provided with a list of 31 languages, and you can select as many as you want. Click the
checkbox next to the language to select it. Google recommends choosing the first option: Search for pages
written in any language. This is recommended because when you do your search you will get more results.
If you only choose a few or a single language only, Google will not search the whole World Wide Web; it
searches only the pages written in the specified language or languages.
Setting filter options
SafeSearch Filtering filters adult sites containing explicit sexual content. There are three SafeSearch options:
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Use strict filtering: This eliminates search results with explicit images and explicit textual content.
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Use moderate filtering: This filters only explicit images. This is the default setting for Google.
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Do not filter my search result: No filtering takes place.
SafeSearch filtering its not 100 percent accurate but it does a very good job. Chapter 4 contains much more
information about SafeSearch.
Result number setting
When searches return a large number of results it can be time consuming to continue paging through the
results. Instead of using the default number of ten results per page you can choose to customize the results
page by choosing a larger number of results per page. To change the number of results that Google displays
use the Number of results preference setting. You may choose to see 10, 20, 30, 50, or even 100 results for
page by selecting from the drop-down list.
The more results you choose, the longer it takes the results to load into your browser.
Opening a new results window
The last preference is Results Window. By selecting this option you can choose to view search results in a
new browser window. Every time you do a search and click on a search result link a new browser window
opens on your computer displaying the results of your search. This is particularly handy if you want to
compare or view many results at the same time.
Another option to seeing your results displayed in a new window is after you perform your Google search,
you have the option of opening each result in a new window by holding the Ctrl key and clicking the link
with your mouse. On a Macintosh this is the Option key.
Prefetching
Prefetching is a special feature of Mozilla and Firefox browsers. Similar to I’m Feeling Lucky, Prefetching
bets that what you are looking for is in the first Web page. With Prefetching set in your browser, Google
begins downloading the first Web page that appears on the Google search results page. This increases effi-
ciency as the first page is already loaded and ready to display rather than waiting for it to load after clicking
the link in the search results.
If you have this feature turned on in your browsers, you may end up with cookies from Web
pages you have never visited along with additional pages in your Firefox or Mozilla caches. If
these pages contain images, they will be saved in your Temporary Internet files.
CAUTION
CAUTION
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