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To query a search engine is very simple, all you have to do is
enter a keyword or keywords into the search box and click the 'enter'
or the 'search' button, as shown below.

The most important part of a search is to pick the right keywords,
always pick the most relevant keyword. For example,
- If you are looking for information about Manchester United you
would enter "Manchester United" as keywords rather than
"football" or "soccer" or "premiership
football team".
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Tips
For search engines such as Google (currently the most popular search
engine) it is useful to remember these points,
- The keywords entered first are the keywords deemed most important.
Usually it's best to keep the query simple and to the point.
- Virtually every word you enter into a search engine is important,
but some may be ignored such as 'the,' 'for,' or 'a,'. The fewer
terms used the better.
- The order in which the keywords are entered also plays an important
part of what search results are displayed.
- Common words such as "where" and "how" are
not always recognised and may be useless.
- If the character "+" (leave a space infront of "+")
is put infront of a keyword it indicates the keyword is essential.
e.g., Godfather Part +1.
- The best way for searching for a phrase is to put quotation marks
around the keywords. e.g., "premiership football".
- Search engines like Google are case insensitive, so using capital
letters is pointless.
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Anatomy of Search Results
While the way search engines display their results varies from
one to another, it's fair to say that they generally adhere to a
similar structure. Below we will examine how Google displays it's
results.

1. Is the hyperlink to the document and the title of the document
2. Is a description of the document, usually made up from the meta
tag description.
3. Is the URL address of the document.
4. Is a screenshot of the document, held by Google during it's
crawl of the document.
5. Provides a list of documents with a similar type of content.
6. The top result Google displays sometimes includes a list of
other popular documents at that domain.
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