Tutorial 4 - Task 2: Searching the Internet

Search engines sort through the most relevant web pages upon request using a set of rules called algorithms. They also use the location/frequency methods which find the closest keywords and phrases relevant to the search. The most relevant is placed at the top of the list of web pages and the developers of the websites can pay to put their sites at the top of the list so it seems to the viewer to be more relevant and entice more people to their sites. My favourite search engines are Google and Yahoo. I like the extra links they have at the side of the search pages. Sometimes I find what I’m looking for in them rather than the searched websites.