You will gain a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different search engines. You will gain a better understanding of the differences between a directory and a search engine. Before you begin, remember you must use the browser's Back Button to return to this page to continue the lesson. Today, our mission is to find a bargain price for Henckel's 4 Star 7 piece knife set. Since we want to find the answer to a specific question and we want to find it quickly, we will use a search engine.
Search engines cover different parts of the Web and different amounts of the Web.
To do a thorough search, you will need to use several different search engines or even the same one several different times. Many search engines use OR as the default. That is why your results are so numerous and some of the results you are getting probably do not match your expectation. If you want to have two or more words to be searched together as a phrase , you will need to put Quotation Marks around the phrase. Go back to your original search terms and put the quotation marks around the terms.