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Web Search Engines are tools which are used to search for information in the World Wide Web. During the period of non existence of search engines, the collection of web servers were maintained and searched for details. Archie was the first ever tool launched in the history of search engines.

Search engines function with three basic principles. The storage information of web pages is retrieved from web. This is facilitated by using web crawlers or spiders. Once this is done the content of the pages are sorted based on few vital information of the sites such as title, headings and meta tags. Search engines searches the required information requested by the user.