Editing Google Search (section)

==Operations==
=== Search products ===
{{Main|List of Google products}}
{{Redirect|Google Videos}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Google Videos
| collapsible = Yes
| screenshot = File:Google Videos search engine screenshot.png
| screenshot_size = 300px
| logo = Google Videos logo.png
| logo_size = 250px
| caption = Google Videos homepage as of 2025
| url = {{URL|https://www.google.com/videohp}}
| commercial = Yes
| type = [[Video search engine]]
| language = Multilingual
| registration = Recommended
| owner = [[Google]]
| launch_date = {{start date and age|2012|8|20}}
| revenue = 
}}

In addition to its tool for searching [[webpage|web pages]], Google also provides services for searching images, [[Usenet]] [[newsgroup]]s, news websites, videos ('''Google Videos'''), [[Local search (Internet)|searching by locality]], maps, and items for sale online. '''Google Videos''' allows searching the [[World Wide Web]] for video clips.<ref name=":0g">{{Cite web |last=Sullivan |first=Danny |date=August 5, 2010 |title=Let's Celebrate Google's Biggest Failures! |url=https://searchengineland.com/lets-celebrate-googles-biggest-failures-48165 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405045443/https://searchengineland.com/lets-celebrate-googles-biggest-failures-48165 |archive-date=April 5, 2019 |access-date=April 5, 2019 |website=Search Engine Land}}</ref> The service evolved from [[Google Video]], Google's discontinued video hosting service that also allowed to search the web for video clips.<ref name=":0g" />

In 2012, Google has indexed over 30 trillion web pages, and received 100 billion queries per month.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 8, 2012 |title=Google: 100 Billion Searches Per Month, Search To Integrate Gmail, Launching Enhanced Search App For iOS |url=http://searchengineland.com/google-search-press-129925 |access-date=February 18, 2013 |publisher=Searchengineland.com |archive-date=March 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303134243/http://searchengineland.com/google-search-press-129925 |url-status=live }}</ref> It also [[web cache|caches]] much of the content that it [[web indexing|indexes]]. Google operates other tools and services including [[Google News]], [[Google Shopping]], [[Google Maps]], [[Google Custom Search]], [[Google Earth]], [[Google Docs]], [[Picasa]] (discontinued), [[Panoramio]] (discontinued), [[YouTube]], [[Google Translate]], [[Google Blog]] Search and [[Google Desktop]] Search (discontinued<ref name="spring-clean">{{Cite web |last=Alan Eustace |date=September 2, 2011 |title=A fall spring-clean |url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=September 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907013015/http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html |url-status=live }}</ref>).

There are also products available from Google that are not directly search-related. [[Gmail]], for example, is a [[webmail]] application, but still includes search features; [[Google Browser Sync]] does not offer any search facilities, although it aims to organize your browsing time.

=== Energy consumption ===
In 2009, Google claimed that a search query requires altogether about 1&nbsp;[[Joule|kJ]] or 0.0003&nbsp;[[Kilowatt hours|kW·h]],<ref>[http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/powering-google-search.html Blogspot.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090729054622/http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/powering-google-search.html |date=July 29, 2009 }}, Powering a Google search</ref> which is enough to raise the temperature of one liter of water by 0.24&nbsp;°C. According to green search engine [[Ecosia]], the industry standard for search engines is estimated to be about 0.2&nbsp;grams of CO<sub>2</sub> emission per search.<ref>[https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201531072-How-does-Ecosia-neutralize-a-search-s-CO2-emissions-] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328125253/https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201531072-How-does-Ecosia-neutralize-a-search-s-CO2-emissions-|date=March 28, 2019}} How does Ecosia neutralize a search's CO2 emissions?</ref> Google's 40,000 searches per second translate to 8&nbsp;kg CO<sub>2</sub> per second or over 252 million kilos of CO<sub>2</sub> per year.<ref>[http://www.internetlivestats.com/google-search-statistics/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204095944/http://www.internetlivestats.com/google-search-statistics/|date=February 4, 2015}} Google Search Statistics</ref>

=== Google Doodles ===
{{Main|Google Doodle}}

On certain occasions, the [[Google logo|logo]] on Google's webpage will change to a special version, known as a "Google Doodle". This is a picture, drawing, animation, or interactive game that includes the logo. It is usually done for a special event or day although not all of them are well known.<ref>[https://doodles.google/about/ About Google Doodles] . Google.com. Retrieved on November 29, 2013.</ref> Clicking on the Doodle links to a string of Google search results about the topic. The first was a reference to the [[Burning Man Festival]] in 1998,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hwang, Dennis |date=June 8, 2004 |title=Oodles of Doodles |url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/06/oodles-of-doodles.html |access-date=July 19, 2006 |publisher=[[Google]] (corporate blog) |archive-date=December 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202033119/http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/06/oodles-of-doodles.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=History of Doodles |url=https://www.google.com/doodle4google/history.html |access-date=October 5, 2010 |publisher=Google, Inc. |archive-date=February 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205205345/http://www.google.com/doodle4google/history.html |url-status=deviated }}</ref> and others have been produced for the birthdays of notable people like [[Albert Einstein]], historical events like the interlocking [[Lego]] block's 50th anniversary and holidays like [[Valentine's Day]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 14, 2007 |title=valentine07 |website=Google |url=https://www.google.com/logos/valentine07.gif |access-date=April 6, 2007 |archive-date=March 7, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307235522/http://www.google.com/logos/valentine07.gif |url-status=live }}</ref> Some Google Doodles have interactivity beyond a simple search, such as the famous "Google Pac-Man" version that appeared on May 21, 2010.