Using the Search Bar to Find Information on the World Wide Web

How many pages are there on the World Wide Web? No one can say for sure, but the number is at least 50 million, probably more than 100 million, and growing every day. How do you find specific information in the billions of words and hyperlinks on all those pages? That's where search engines come in.

Internet Explorer offers easy access to several popular search engines through an Explorer bar that works much like the Favorites bar. When you click the Search button, an Explorer bar like the one in Figure 19.6 takes over the left side of the screen.

Finding information on the web is a two-step process: First, you have to choose a search engine that's appropriate for the type of information ...

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