What is difference between Browsing and Searching?

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  1. laarnihughes Member

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    IMO, browsing means that you are just surfing around and looking for something interesting which you may stumble to find while searching is that looking for a particular event, search, topic, etc. with your own interest.
  2. learnbusiness New Member

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    Juliapattrick has the right answer for you. You actually need a website address for you to be able to browse. But with searching you only need the keyword which you hence google - the work of SEO.
  3. andrewjohn Member

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    browsing mean you just opening and seeing the web sites.but searching mean when you searching some information from theses sites.
  4. Steffy Rose Member

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    Browsing - looking for something interesting
    Searching - searching is just trying to find the information you need.
  5. richerdmartil Member

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    juliapattrick Thank You for providing really unique difference.
    Browsing means looking for the website or web pages.and searching means finding any particular thing.In browsing you enter the address of particular website or web page in the address bar but in searching you enter the keyword in the google search window.
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    To me, browsing is more surfacy. That means it is just going here and there without a target following wherever the internet stream takes you. Searching means you are looking for something specific and won't get waylaid on the way.
  7. richerdmartil Member

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    Thank You For describing this difference.
  8. samantha1230 Member

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    Browse means to view data, browsing means viewing/retrieving of data or information.
    Searching means finding anything.
  9. semi88 Member

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    for Browsing you need to Enter a URL in the address box, Scan the page for information, Click links found in the browser window. for searching Enter keywords/operators in the search engine box,
    Scan result snippets for information, Click links to the cached information or the live web page.
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    You can't do searching without browsing. But you can do browsing without searching.
  11. aditd Member

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    Browsing is looking around for ... searching is looking for something in particular.
  12. seansmith New Member

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    i think the main difference of browsing and searching is browsing means to go any kind of website by giving the location in adressber and searching means to find any particular things/documents in any kind of seo sites.
  13. C0ldf1re Member

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    Well done! I like that definition. (And it was written in proper English, too!)
  14. Anaya Adams Member

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    Browsing is just visiting any website or the web for information, while searching means using any specific search engine for digging out the information you are in search off.
  15. mrtwister New Member

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    I think that nowadays everybody knows the difference
  16. kumar80 Member

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    Browsing is done in Browser's firefox, Chrome, IE or any else, where you enter the address of website directly in the address bar to open it and Search is simply you open any search engine and type keyword for searching.

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