Search Engines

Google is an example of a search engine.

Google searches within its database for web pages that match your keywords.

Use search engines:

• to find specific terms or phrases
• to find well-known entities, such as Disney or government agencies
• to find news, travel and shopping services

Other search engines include:  Bing, Yahoo, and Excite.

Metasearch engines show the results of several search engines at a time. Examples of metasearch engines are Ixquick, Dogpile, and MetaCrawler.

Now let's practice searching...

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