Search Engine

Excite, Lycos, AltaVista, Infoseek, Yahoo. All search engines. All would have made you very rich if you invested in them a couple of years ago, but that's beside the point. Search engines find and index sites on the web. By creating indexes of databases of these sites (based on titles, keywords, and the text in files) they can (supposedly) find relevant web sites for what people search for. When you are looking for something using a search engine, it is a good idea to use words like AND and OR and NOT, and punctuation -- like quotes (for names) and parentheses to group words together. This helps narrow your search, giving you a list of more relevant sites.