Websearch, the finder tool

Websearch is one product I call by the name that is actually part of the help center and help community's URL but in reality it is simply known as the Google Search engine. Google Search is the first product that Google developed and was a way to find all the public information on the world wide web and still operates the same way meaning to find public information. If you are a webmaster, you might be more prone to use the Google Search engine to see how well your website is ranking in the search results and then knowing which keywords will pull up your website. Google Search is more than just a tool to find websites, it can also find images, Google Books, news, stocks (finance), and a few other things and sometimes if you are wanting to look in a specific section so for example images, you can go directly to images.google.com or in the www.google.com, there is the word "images" on the upper right or you can insert a keyword into the search engine and then once that pulls up, underneath the search bar you can see the words like "images," "books," etc.

The home page of Google Search

Once you insert a phrase into the search bar and click on 'Google Search'

I can easily use Google Search on a daily bases such as to look up specific ISBNs and then the Google Search results tell me places that sell that particular item and then I can compare and contrast sell prices of the item. I don't have many websites memorized in my mind so I use the Google Search engine to locate that website for me whether it is to find a grocery story website so I can go through their weekly ads. Sometimes I do use other parts of the Google Search engine such as the section specifically for images and this is one section that recently saw a new change in what happens when you click on an image to view it better. Many users don't like the recent change that occurred for images.google.com and the change is documented in https://www.blog.google/products/search/pick-idea-and-make-it-happen-google-images/. Some people dislike the fact that now the blow up image is on the right. 

For me, the thing that is most visible is that the information about the image does not fit my screen and I have to scroll down to see all of it. Before for me, the image would show up more in the middle of my screen and I did not have to scroll up or down or side to side to see all I wanted to see which was the image and an option to visit the website. Here you can tell they are in the process of adding more information so now the image has the title of the article, a way to share, bookmark and add to 'collections,' and if you scroll down you can see related images. For me, the previous way of viewing images allowed you to see related images, the option to go to the website and to save to collections/share were all on the screen and no scrolling has to be done so the change does seem very dramatic to me. Another change that seems to have occurred at least for my device/results is that the number of images per row is less.

If wanted to see if 'puppies' comes up with any results in 'shopping' I can switch my view over to 'shopping' and see I do get results along with ways to sort my results by price so lowest to highest or highest or lowest, along with I can make my results more defined so show things that cost less than a certain price or can be bought with Google or define who the seller of the product is. 

Something else about Google Search results is that it can pull up results that only you can see or only a few people can see including can pull up your own myaccount.google.com or things you have written that are private so if you never want to worry about seeing results that could be private meaning you only can see them then use Google Search incognito or while logged out of all Google Accounts. An example I can tell of when the results were clearly ones that were private was when Google+ existed since occasionally I would look up things and results would give me Google+ results that were one-on-one posts or ones in a private community or otherwise private. I have also had times when I would look something up and underneath the result it would clearly state 'only you can see this.' So if you want to know if other users can see something or not, how about taking a look at your Google Search results while logged out of all Google Accounts so you can see what they would see. 

If you ever want to learn more about Google Search/Websearch, then take a look at the Google Search Help Center located at www.support.gooogle.com/websearch and they have a help community located at www.support.google.com/websearch/community where users are currently commenting about the recent change to the Google Images search.