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| when there is an explosive amount of | | | | indexing. |
| information waiting to be availed of with | | | | |
| just the click of a mouse, the daunting task | | | | Pages are indexed and ranked according to |
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| find or locate information or resources based | | | | results meet their needs and enables them to |
| on the use of keywords. The most commonly | | | | find the data they are searching for in |
| used Search Engine is the web search engine | | | | minimum possible clicks. A simple design, |
| which retrieves information from the World | | | | user friendly interface, most number of |
| Wide Web or the internet. | | | | relevant results returned are the few |
| | | | determinants that make a Search Engine |
| The task of finding data on any subject on | | | | popular. |
| the internet is a monumental one given the | | | | |
| exhaustive amount of information available. | | | | Search Engines can be used to find any number |
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| of documents that matches their requirements | | | | Video search engines locate videos from all |
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| keywords, phrases or Boolean logic for the | | | | popular sites like You-Tube, My Space etc. |
| information they are looking for in any of | | | | |
| the more popular search engines like Google, | | | | To conclude, Search Engine makes the work of |
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| | | | quicker. Getting information ranging from |
| Search Engines work through the system of | | | | data for a work project or simply the review |
| storing, indexing and searching. They | | | | of the latest movie is only as simple as |
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| web-pages sourced from the World Wide Web | | | | hitting the enter button. Given the dynamic |
| using web-crawlers or automated web browsers. | | | | rate at which the internet is growing with |
| The web resources are then indexed using | | | | more and more resources available over the |
| words from headings, titles or meta tags. | | | | net, the service provided by Search Engines |
| Search engines return results closely | | | | is almost indispensable. |