googleblog.blogspot.com — "Those of us in user support had a pet peeve: there was no single place that held all of Google's help information at your fingertips. So we decided to build one -- and now you can visit Google Help to find tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions for just about every Google product and service."
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npinskiJul 27, 2006
In fairness to google, providing "Help" for their searches is like Webster's dictionary providing a "Help" chapter at the start telling you how to look up a word, or Windows booting up with an optional tutorial of how to use a mouse, and what that clickity-thing in front of you with letters on it is.Search on the internet - ESPECIALLY search on google - is ubiquitous. All the information they finally collated was always available somewhere else, but they didn't need to provide it in a way like they do now because the need wasn't there.
imjasonhJul 27, 2006
Technically, the link is just <a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/support">http://www.google.com/support</a> -- the rest of that is just (I assume) clickthrough tracking and language options
vgcfJul 28, 2006
Why would anyone need help using Google anyway?
haploJul 28, 2006
"And why SHOULDNT a dictionary explain how it is laid out and how to use it?"Most do"Why SHOULDNT windows explain how to use it on the most fundamental level."Press F1npinski probably never uses the former nor the latter. Probably thinks you can guess everything :-)
haploJul 28, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=freind">http://www.google.com/search?q=freind</a>Did you mean: friend True result.
spacebar14Jul 28, 2006
^^ But you have to pay for that. I'm talking about a community driven one.
kikinekoJul 28, 2006
Wow it's not in beta.