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A Helpful Guide To Web Search Engines
Tips on using internet search sites like Google, alltheweb, and Yahoo. [/align][align=center]The Spider's Apprentice, Spidap, is not another search engine. Our purpose is to help you understand and use search engines. How do they work? Why do certain results come up frequently and others not at all? Which search engines are most useful and efficient? How can you improve your searches and find what you want more easily? If you are a web page designer, how can you utilize search engines to draw more traffic to your website?[/align][align=center]That's what we're all about -- helping you use the Web more efficiently.In fact, we've been providing this information as a public service since the early days of web search engines in 1996. We explain to you how search engines work. We advise you on improving your own search engine ranking by careful use of meta tags and keywords. We guide you in figuring out which search engines are most effective--in fact, we rate them for you. (See below).
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Okay.. in a "nutshell" so to speak.....

Search engines take key words from your search and search websites for them. Things like AskJeeves where you type in a question... it doesn't read your question(I knew even in Elemenatyr sChool when this was all they let us use it was crap)

Once again, search engines use key words. For example. If you type in "Who is Carrie Underwood?" It omits the "Who" and the "is". These are common words, therefore, they aren't used. The search engine searches the web for the words "Carrie" and "Underwood".

Or if you type in the question "Who is the author of Harry Potter?"

You'll find the name you want, JK Rolling. However, the search engine only used "author Harry Potter" in it's search.

People get mad when search engines don't answer their questions. Well... you can't expect it to. You've got to know your question and know how to find the answer. Instead of typing questions, just type in words that would pertain to what you want to know.

Another example: If you want to know "Why is the sky blue?" You would not type in "Why is the sky blue" It will omit the words "Why is the" and just search for the term "sky blue". You wil probably find alot of references to the color "sky blue". What you should type in is "sky blue science" and hten you will find the scientific reasoning for why the sky is blue.

Hope this helps