Search Engine in Action
A search engine looks through many webpages for the words you type. It then shows the pages that contain those words.
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Age 15: open this week
Browse Age 15In the picture
- The magnifying glass: scanning across many webpages.
- The search bar: where the words to search for are entered.
- A webpage tile: one page among the many being checked.
- The glowing tile: a page that contains the entered words and is listed.
Examples
- Typing volcano facts and getting pages about volcanoes.
- Typing a friend’s name and seeing pages that mention that name.
Key takeaways
- Search engines match your words to pages that contain them.
- Many pages are checked, but only matching ones appear in the results.
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