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Google Provides Help For the Help-Seekers


Download entire help documents for Google services.

Isn't it always fun stumbling across some new feature to enhance your overall Google Experience?

Download Google Help FilesJust the little things that can add so much convenience to your daily web use like the definition or movies web search features.

This one doesn't exactly apply to web search, but the Google Operating System Blog has brought up an interesting feature that is present in a variety of Google's services.

That feature would be the ability to download the entire help file for each respective feature to avoid having to go through the process of navigating through complex hierarchies or searching.

To bring up a very detailed (and frequently updated) help file for a Google service, just simply add ?fulldump=1 to the end of earch help center's URL, and you will have a nice lengthy document you can store away on your hard drive for safe keeping or print out as a desktop reference guide.

Ionut Alex Chitu suggests converting the files to PDFs.

It works for Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs, Google Calendar, AdSense, Picasa, Analytics,  and a variety of others (see the full list at Google OS Blog).

One of my favorite things about Google from the average user's perspective is that they're always giving us ways to find things more conveniently.

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About the author:
Chris Crum is a staff writer for WebProNews and iEntry Network.

Comments

Re Help for the help seekers

Thanks for your info on this subject. Google does provide excellent information for the help seekers but because of the amount of info that Google do provide, it can be as easy as finding your way throught a labyrinth.

This will be a time saver as well as performing tasks more efficiently.

Thanks and well done!

RE: help for the help seekers

Thank you Rene. Yes, it can be like navigating through a labyrinth. Luckily there are so many people keeping up with everything Google does, it can make things easier for the average joe to learn.

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