EMPOWER - Module 6 - Searching the Internet

How Search Engines Work:

1. You search for keywords.
2. They scan their databases.
3. They compare your keywords against their webpages' text.
4. They rank the matching webpages by:
   • How often your keywords appear
   • Where your keywords are placed
   • A webpage's indexed authority
   • Number of links to and from the webpage’s URL

Research Tip
 

Use multiple Search Engines or a Metasearch Engine.

• No search engine has indexed the entire surface web
• Every search engine searches its unique index