What is Search Engine
There are billions of pages of information stored on the Internet. Hence. It becomes very difficult to find the exact information you want. And so the Internet has some special search tools that help you to quickly search for any amount of information on any topic. These search tools are called Search engines.
Search engines are powerful software programs that search for information on the basis of the keywords that you provide. Search engines will search billions of pages on different servers and give you the search results in the form of URLs of all those sites that contain the information you are searching for. Click on any such URL to get details of the information. There are many search engines on the Internet and the process of searching the net is more or less the same.
Some of the popular search engine:
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.altavista.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.lycos.com
http://www.hotbot.com
http://www.msn.com
Many of these provide searches in only Indian sites. Some Indian Search Engines are:
http://www.khoj.com
http://www.indiaindex.com
