• Results display customizations
• Number of hits
• Relevance of results
• Experiments with search engines

1. Introduction

Searching is one of the most used actions on the Internet. Search engines as an instrument of searching, are special sites on the Web that are designed to help people find information stored on other sites. Every ordinary user on the Internet must have good knowledge about search engines and searching in order to explore the wonderful world that the Internet creates to a greater extent.

Since the number of search engines is large and their features vary, learning them by comparing will be helpful to get the users more acquainted with them and therefore can use them better to find information needed as complete and accurate as possible. This article will compare various features of search engines from different aspects and will also present experimental results from real experiments with major search engines conducted by the author.

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