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Capital letters and punctuation are not needed.
Search engines usually disregard minor words such as ‘the’, ‘and’ or ‘to’.
Once you have typed into the search box, click the search button or press the
return key .
You may have heard of the expressions ‘navigating’ and ‘surfing the net’. It’s not surprising that the language of the internet draws from the language of the sea, given that internet cables are buried deep beneath the ocean floor. We ‘navigate’ a website, which can easily take us in many different directions. We ‘surf the net’ when we’re randomly exploring what kind of information is available to us on the world wide web. We also use the word ‘port’ to describe where cables are plugged in.
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