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When you visit a search engine you will always notice the key word search box as the place to start. When you type in a word and click search the page will change to a results page. Hits are another word for results. Depending on your search word the hits could be in the millions.





Users have the option to search by image (picture), video, web, and news articles. By using these options you can view what you are looking for without everything else mixing in. We will get into more ways to refine your search later in topic 3.

The most popular search engines are [|Google], [|Yahoo], [|Ask], and [|Bing]. They are all similar, but have subtle differences. Each search engine has its own technique to index information scanned from websites. If you are not able to find what you are looking for using Google, you can try using Yahoo, Ask, or Bing. There are even search engines that search, search engines. They are called meta-search engines. Using meta-search engines like [|Dogpile] or [|MetaCrawler] when you type in a keyword, will allow you to search all the major search engines ([|Google], [|Yahoo], and [|Bing]) and display tops results found from each.

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