Search Engines

Did you know search engines do not search the entire Internet?

Search engines "crawl" the web using spiders or robots to compile a database of pages found on the surface web. When you enter a search, it searches within its own database of websites for the keywords you enter, wherever they appear on a website. So, each search engine searches the part of the Internet it has collected--not the whole web--and each search engine has a somewhat different database.

Search engines do not search the deep web

Examples of search engines include: Google, Yahoo, Clusty, Ask

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