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| there is an explosive amount of information | | | | indexing. |
| waiting to be availed of with just the click of a | | | | Pages are indexed and ranked according to |
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| used to find or locate information or resources | | | | enables them to find the data they are searching |
| based on the use of keywords. The most | | | | for in minimum possible clicks. A simple design, |
| commonly used Search Engine is the web search | | | | user friendly interface, most number of relevant |
| engine which retrieves information from the World | | | | results returned are the few determinants that |
| Wide Web or the internet. | | | | make a Search Engine popular. |
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| internet is a monumental one given the | | | | of internet resources and multimedia including |
| exhaustive amount of information available. | | | | texts, images, audio, videos etc. Video search |
| Programs like Search Engines enable users to | | | | engines locate videos from all over the net |
| minimize their work and provide them the list of | | | | hosted on sites, including the popular sites like |
| documents that matches their requirements the | | | | You-Tube, My Space etc. |
| closest. It is a simple task of typing in keywords, | | | | To conclude, Search Engine makes the work of |
| phrases or Boolean logic for the information they | | | | browsing through the net or computer systems, |
| are looking for in any of the more popular search | | | | looking for desired information, easier and quicker. |
| engines like Google, Alta Vista etc. and find | | | | Getting information ranging from data for a work |
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| Search Engines work through the system of | | | | is only as simple as typing in keywords in the |
| storing, indexing and searching. They maintain a | | | | Search Engines and hitting the enter button. Given |
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| from the World Wide Web using web-crawlers or | | | | with more and more resources available over the |
| automated web browsers. The web resources | | | | net, the service provided by Search Engines is |
| are then indexed using words from headings, titles | | | | almost indispensable. |
| or meta tags. Search engines return results | | | | |