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Search engines are basically web sites that help you find other web sites. The easiest way to go to a search engine is by clicking on the ‘Search’ button on your browser. Or type in their web address. But if you are searching for an address or even just some information, you can use so-called search engines. These are websites which have indexed the complete Internet. You type in a word in a search field on their page - and the search engine returns every web site it finds containing this word. This can be overwhelming. For example a search for reptiles might return almost 200,000 pages. By using the advanced features of search engines, you can narrow down searches to make sure the result helps you. If you search for +legless +lizards +Melbourne at www.altavista.com, you force the search engine to find only pages containing all three words - and it finds only 45 Internet pages. If you had an Internet shop in Melbourne selling legless lizards, my son could have become your customer recently. He did not find a shop, but good information on legless lizards. To use a search engine, you provide details about the information you want - then it returns with a list of Web sites that may have what you’re looking for. Here are some of the more important search engines: Yahoo Alta Vista Excite Lycos Google Magellan Web Crawler MSN Search Look Smart Webtop |
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