This content was published by Andrew Tomazos and written by several hundred members of the former Internet Knowledge Base project.

Keyword Search

Keyword search is currently the second most popular use of the Internet after email.

If you know a few words to describe what you are looking for you can find vast quantities of information about nearly anything.

Search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN Search take a copy of most of the publically available information on web sites and then search that cache to direct you to the right resource.

The methods with which they rank sites has become an area of fierce commercial competition.

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