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Once we get access to the internet browser, of a website, we can type that address into the
we have to find the information that we want. search bar on the top of the browser and search
The Internet is a sea of information. It contains for it.
videos, magazines, newspaper articles, music,
scientific journals, games, movies, etc. All this Now, if you are searching for a book to
information is organised and stored in places read and you don’t know of any website that
called websites. Separate websites are designed provides details about it, what can you do to
by individuals or companies in order to pro- find the book? It is here that we use a search
mote their products or services. Every website engine. It is a special website where we can
has its own address, which stays the same all search for any kind of information. Some of
the time. Through the internet browser, we can the search engines are Google, Yahoo, Bing,
go to websites that can provide us with infor- Baidu, AOL, and Ask. while searching on a
mation about the things we want. For example, search engine, it provides us with the details
if we want to find e-books, we should go to of different websites that can provide us with
websites that provide e-books. How do we the information we want. From these, we can
go to a website? When we have the address choose the one we like.

Fig 2.4.2 Search Engines

Is a mobile phone the only possible way for 1. Desktop Computer
us to read online? No. There are a lot of other 2. Laptop
options available to us. Some of them are:- 3. Tablet
4. Amazon Kindle

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