What is Google Search?
{{About|the [[search engine]]|the corporation|Google}} {{Infobox website |name =Google Search |logo =Google 2015 logo.svg |screenshot =Google web search.png |caption =The [[Google]] homepage |url =[http://www.google.com/ http://www.google.com]<br />[[#Domain names|list of domain names]] |commercial =Yes |type =[[Web search engine|Search Engine]] |language =[[#International|Multilingual]] (124) |registration =Optional |owner =[[Google]] |author = Sergey Brin and Larry Page |launch_date =September 15, 1997<ref>{{cite web| url=http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=google.com&type=domain | title=WHOIS - google.com | accessdate=2009-01-27}}</ref> |current_status =Active |revenue =From [[AdWords]] }} '''Google Search''' or '''Google Web Search''' is a web [[search engine]] owned by [[Google]] Inc. and is the most-used search engine on the [[World Wide Web]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/google.com+yahoo.com+altavista.com |title=Alexa Search Engine ranking |accessdate=2009-11-15 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305234311/http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/google.com+yahoo.com+altavista.com |url-status=dead }}</ref> Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3630718 |title=Almost 12 Billion U.S. Searches Conducted in July |publisher=SearchEngineWatch |date=2008-09-02 |accessdate= |archive-date=2008-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080912104253/http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3630718 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The main purpose of Google Search is to hunt for text in webpages, as opposed to other data, such as with Google Image Search. Google search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997,<ref>{{cite web|url= http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=google.com&type=domain|title=WHOIS - google.com|acce