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Internet search engines

The internet contains a huge amount of information, all right at your fingertips. The only thing you need to do is to find what’s useful for your research. Search engines are excellent tools for this, but if you don’t know how to conduct your searches effectively, you’re in danger of getting lost in the information jungle.

Choosing a search engine

All search engines are different in terms of their scope, how they search for information and how they organise the results. Therefore, choosing your search engine is ultimately

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