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What to know about search engines:

Crawler-Based Search Engines - Crawler search engines create a search list automatically based on what you search for. No human interaction is involved in getting your search results.

Search Tips:
Trying to cut down on sites that don't bring you what you need. Add symbols to your search to cut down on the no-good pages in your search.

  • Most search engines will search for every word you search for individually (i.e. George Bush Iraq War would search for George, for Bush, for Iraq, and War all individually.) By adding a "+" sign, you can narrow your seach by telling the search engine to search for them together. ex. George +Bush +Iraq +War.
  • You can also do the same thing with the "-" sign. ex. George +Bush -Iraq -War. This would search for George Bush, but would exclude anything that would have Iraq or War in the page.
  • Are you looking for something on a specific website? Try it like this "Search Engines host:www.adsnet.com", host:website narrows it down to only the website you request and would probably come up with this page.
  • Add quotations around phrases to make searches more specific (ex. "Peter Rabbit goes to the store."). This would make the search engine search for the phrase, instead of each word individually.
  • All these tips used together would probably get your right where you wanted to be. Use them together, use them seperate, but they make searching for what you want easy as cake.

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