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Search Pages and Results. Searching is where a user types a query into a computer and an algorithm looks at a set of data to find relevant results. What is searching?. • Because the environment they are operating in has too much information to be comfortably browsed.
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Searching is where a user types a query into a computer and an algorithm looks at a set of data to find relevant results. What is searching?
• Because the environment they are operating in has too much information to be comfortably browsed. • Because formal classification has its limits. Why do people search?
• Multi-box • Single-box Two Ways of Searching
• Search Boxes • Search Engine Optimization Practical Implementation
• Google: 53.6% • Yahoo!: 19.9% • Windows Live: 12.9% • AOL: 5.6% • Ask.com: 1.7% • Other: 6.3% —August 2007, SearchEngineWatch.com Market Shares