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What is Search Engine?

Search engines are the special websites that provide facility to Internet users to search information on the Internet. A lot of information is available on the Internet in different websites. There are billions of websites on the Internet. The Internet users only browse the important website addresses. The other website addresses can be searched through search engines. The search engines keep the record of website addresses along with important words for description of each web page.

For example, if you want to get information about the “History of Internet”, give these words to any search engine. The search engine will search the given information and will provide a list of links of websites along with brief description about each website. Click one of the links of websites after reading the description.

The commonly used search engines and their URL addresses are:

It must be noted that you can create your own website and register your page with any search engine (as mentioned above). Your page can be searched by any Internet user through search engine.

Searching Information using Search Engine

To search information on the Internet, follow these steps.

• Open any search engine.
• Type the information to search in the "Search" or "Find" text box of search engine page.
• Click the Search or Find or Seek button of search engine page.

The search engine sends the typed information to its database. After a few seconds result is displayed in the browser window. There may be about 100 or more websites that match your given topic or query. Click the hyperlink of the website you want.

The following points must be noted to search the information on the Internet.

• Type all words in lowercase.
• Use + sign between words if you want to search all words. For example, to search history of computer, type as:
  history + computer
• To search the exact match, write the words in double quotation marks.
  For example to search the map of USA, type as:
  "USA map"

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