Search Engines and Search Operators

How crawling, indexing and ranking work, organic versus paid results, the deep web, search operators such as site, filetype and intitle, and academic sources like Shodhganga and NDL.

2 topics, 10 practice questions

1. How Search Engines WorkBasic

   Crawling, indexing and ranking, the results page and paid listings, PageRank and robots.txt, the surface, deep and dark web, and academic search resources in India.

2. Search Operators and Evaluating SourcesBasic

   Every common search operator with its exact syntax, how operators widen or narrow a search, and how to judge whether a source is fit to cite in official work.

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