Phrases or Keywords
One wants to find out the websites, which match hundred percent his needs or desire, and that is the basic purpose of searching. Now the question is whether to use phrases or keywords.
Modern Search Engines allow both types of search - you can simply type your phrase and the search engine will display data accordingly. They try to match as close as possible. If a phrase is big, the search engine tries to go by the meaning or basic objective of the phrase. Remember search engine crawls the complete page and while crawling the complete page, it also records the sentences, used in meta or even the statements, furnished in the corresponding pages.
Keyword search is the most used techniques even today, where the user has to just key in the keywords to get the desired result. The keywords can be combined using spaces. Quodes are used for more specific searches. Plus and minus symbols are used to priorotiz or de-priorotize the keywords. Alternate keywords are also to be used for a better set of search result.


January 19th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
this is of immense help in searching. I want to know more on usage of + and - sign