Using Search Engines

What is a search engine?

A search engine is a database system designed to index and categorize internet addresses, otherwise known as URLs (for example, http://www.submittoday.com).

How search works

How search works

Search queries

How to search

• Short and simple

• Be aware of word order "song bird"-"bird song"

• Capitalisation does not matter

• Be specific

• Stop words excluded (the, and, is, because )

Search Operators

All-purpose search engines

www.google.com

www.bing.com

www.yahoo.com

Specialised search engines

Videos

Web search - Strategies in plain English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rESpZFGgFsY

How search works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJGZs