Most search engines offer advanced searching, enabling you to search for specific information on the web.
Most search engines allow you to limit your search. The table below shows some of the typical limits from the Google and Yahoo search engines.
To compare these two search engines further see Google Advanced Search and Yahoo Advanced Search.
You can also recognise where a website has come from by looking at the domain names of an internet address:
You can use short cuts in some search engines to carry out more complex searches.
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