® What is It Online search is the process of interactively searching for and retrieving requested information via a computer from databases that are online. Today, searches through web search engines constitute the majority of online searches (Online Search n.d.) Search engine is a service that allows internet users to search for content via the World Wide Web (WWW). A user enters into a search engine and receives a list of Web content results in the form of websites, images, videos or other online data. ‘The list of content returned via a search engine to a user is known as a search engine results page (SERP| (Search Engine 2019). Here are the top three search engines (Chris n.d.) 1. Google is the best search engine worldwide. What made Google the most popular and trusted search engine is the quality of its search results. Google is using sophisticated algorithms to present the most accurate results to the users. According to recent statistics, Google is the most popular search engine with a stunning 87.35% market share. Google 2. Bing is the best alternative search engine to Google. Bing is Microsoft's attempt to challenge Google in search, but despite their efforts, they still did not manage to convince users that their search engine can be as reliable as Google. Bing originated from Microsoft's previous search engines (MSN Search, Windows Live Search, Live Search). Bing’s search engine share is between 2.55% and 12.61%.<5 6 t bieeon 3. Yahoo is one of the most popular email providers and its web search engine holds third place in search with an average of 2% market share. | You can also add CC Search to your list of search engines. CC Search searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. 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Think before you search, Think about the topic or question you would like to search. Think about how you would describe the topic and choose 3 or 4 keywords. 2. Keepit simple. Describe what you want in as few terms as possible. 3. Be specific. The more precise your search terms are, the more precise your search results will be. Avoid general or common words. 4. Imagine how the webpage you are hoping to find wi that are likely to appear on that page. 5. Capitalization, punctuation and spelling don't really matter. In most cases, search engines will ignore capitalization and punctuation in a search and ‘will generally auto-correct your spelling mistakes. 6. Narrow your search results. There are several ways to help you narrow your search results to find exactly what you're looking for. ‘+ Use quotation marks to find exact phrases or names. Put a word or phrase inside quotes. Example: “tallest building’ + Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR, and NOT) to broaden or narrow your search. © AND (+ in Google) narrows the search because it requires both terms to be in each item returned Example: Peanut Butter tand Jam be written. Use words© OR broadens the search because either term (or both) will be in the returned items. (OR gives you more!) Example: © NOT (- in Google) narrows your search because it will eliminate any results with the second term. Example: jaguat speed Cat Apply filters. After you search, most search engines have filters available that will refine you search to a specific type of contact. Search a specific site. If you're looking for a specific topic on a particular website, you can use site: to limit your search results to that site Example: Sit€:YOutube CoH o: Sitei.g60 Search for a specific filetype. If you know that you're searching for a particular type of file use filetype: to narrow your search results to a certain type of file. Example: Search for a definition. If you are looking for a definition of a term, you can use define. Example: define communication Search for a time. If you are searching for a time in specific country, use time . Example: time Dubai Search for social media. Put @ in front of a word to search social Search for a price. Put $ in front of a number. Example: eater $400 Search hashtags. Put # in front of a word. Example: Search for wildcards or unknown words. Put a*in your word or phrase where you want to leave a placeholder. Example: Search within a range of numbers. Put.. between two numbers. Example: camera $50..$100.