Search Engine

What is search engine?

Search engine is a website that provides the facility to find the required websites on a particular topic. A user can search any topic on Internet using search engines. Internet contains a lot of information. A large number of websites about different topics are available. A user cannot remember all websites. He can search different websites using search engines.

Search engines contains the record of many websites. It searches the required websites and display them to the user. Search engines are very powerful tools for finding information.

Searching Information using Search Engine.

Keywords are used to search the required information from search engine. Keyword is a word or set of words that is related to the topic being searched. The keyword is typed in double quotation if it consists of two or more words.

For example, the following keywords can be used to search information about Pakistan universities:

“Pakistani Universities”                                  Universities in Pakistan”

Most Popular Search Engines are followings:

Google                        http://www.google.com

Yahoo                         http://www.yahoo.com

Infoseek                      http://www.infoseek.com

Lycos                          http://www.lycos.com

Altavista                     http://www.altavista.digital.com

Netscape                     http://www.netscape.com

Bing                            http://www.bing.com

Ask                             http://www.ask.com

Excite                         http://www.excite.com