Compared with the entire Web, the number of pages within a site is relatively small, so a simple search engine query might not yield enough or any results, even if there are good pages on the subject.

和整个网络相比，某网站的网页数量是相对较小的，因此一个简单的搜索引擎提问式不会产生足够的结果(译者：搜索引擎是对整个网络进行搜索，而索引是在网站中的几个网页中检索)，就算搜索引擎会返回一些关于提问式的较好的网页。

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The Web search engine-style interface used for processing the queries is designed to handle multiple asterisks in the query.

用于处理查询的Web搜索引擎样式的界面专门用于处理查询中的多个星号。

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Most search engines work by crawling the Web, indexing and filtering the content they find into massive databases, and searching these databases to find results matching a particular search query.

大多数搜索引擎的工作方式是：在Web上爬行，索引并过滤在海量数据库中找到的内容，然后搜索这些数据库以找到匹配特定搜索查询的结果。

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Most people look at only the first ten or so results of a Web search query anyway.

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The free program aims to answer questions directly, rather than display web pages in response to a query like a search engine.

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Popular free Web search service Google, by comparison, will include items posted online, but it ranks them not just by germaneness to the search query but by how many different Web sites link to a particular posting.

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