Searching the Web

You can find all kinds of information on the Web. The best way to find information is to use a search engine. A search engine is a program you access through a Web site and use to search through a collection of Internet information to find what you want. Safari comes with the Google search engine built-in to the program (). When performing a search, the search engine compares keywords with words that it finds on various Internet Web sites. Keywords are words or phrases that best describe the information you want to retrieve. If the search engine finds your keywords in the stored database, it lists links to the matched sites. When ...

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