2.2 Search Engines
What are search engines? Search engines are particular sites. In fact, they allow you to find the pages linked to the requested topics very quickly and effectively. They are very useful because, as you know, there are millions of web pages on the network. Among the most well-known search engines, we mention Google, Yahoo !, Bing.
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This way you don’t necessarily have to know the addresses of the sites you want to find. You can, in fact, search for example based on a theme, and the search engine will return all the sites connected to the specific theme you are looking for.
How do you search? All search engines contain a box in which the word or expression that characterizes the topic we wish to obtain the information must be typed.
Using a search engine is very simple: just enter keywords in the appropriate field and press the relevant submit button:
Each of the results that will appear is a link to a page that contains the desired information.
The first difficulty that will be encountered, however, is the excessive number of pages resulting from a normal search.
The keyword, therefore, must be meaningful and targeted.
Tips to easily find the information you want!
- The keyword must be meaningful and targeted
- Google’s spell checker automatically uses the most common spelling of a given word, even if you spell it incorrectly.
- There is no difference between uppercase and lowercase.
- Are you tired of typing? Click the microphone icon e starts a voice search
- Google completely ignores periods, commas, and colons as well as common expressions (conjunctions, articles)
- it is possible to use logical operators:
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We suggest you to watch the following video to optimize your ability to search!