Article: Internet Basics: A Search Engine Is Like A Librarian

Internet Basics: A Search Engine Is Like A Librarian

Ever tell a librarian you want to find out about the Bermuda Triangle? Or maybe planting perennial bulbs? Or raising pit bulls? It probably didn?t matter what you were interested in, the librarian could point you in the right direction. Yet that?s all she did, point you in the right direction. She didn?t tell you the answer to your question. Why? Because she hasn?t memorized all the books in the library!



That?s what a search engine is like (kind of).



You ask it a question about anything, and it will spit back where you can go to look for it (or 100 000+ places you can go to look for it). The librarian told you to look in such and such a section of the library, while the search engine provides links you click on to go to specific websites.



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