The search engine will search its database, and will return links to pages that will match your search terms. Generally speaking, pages containing all the words that you entered will be at the top of the list and ones that only contain some of the terms will be further down the list of search results. Advanced Searching Search engines allow you to do searches that are more complex than simply typing in a few keywords. For example Human Computer Interaction will find documents containing all these words occurring together in that order. Human Computer Interaction, without the inverted commas, will find documents containing any of these words anywhere in the text.
Some engines also allow the use of wildcard characters in the middle of words.
Compare features of different search engines. Examples Below are a few examples of ways to use some of the more advanced features of search engines. Enter search terms. Try entering the words monetary union in the Alta Vista search box. Alta Vista will return around 408147 documents.