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Search for a single word
Try this experiment:
- Surf on a browser to your customary Internet search engine.
- Launch a search for one word, for example, "gratuities".
- Review the summary results page. How many successful "hits" (results) are reported?
- Glance briefly at the cached version of each of the first ten results.** Record Yes/No answers to these questions:
- (a) Is the word you want present?
- (b) Does that word appear more than once in many of the hits?
If you want to go deeper, note the size of the record in each case. It is typically a web page. A size in kilobytes / thousands of characters is often shown on the summary page. An alternative measure of size is the number of paragraphs or clusters of words in the result.
What kind of information do you get when you search for a single word?
Does your customary Internet search engine do a good job for you when searching for a single word? Is it fast? Is it accurate? Does it give you what you were looking for?
** Why the cached version? It is an image that was stored when a program called a web crawler or bot (short for robot) last encountered that page on the Internet. The page may have changed since then; the word that you are looking for may no longer be there. The page may also have been removed. The cached version typically has the search term(s) highlighted, and is more likely than a current page to show why the page was indexed for the search term that you entered.
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