What is a Search Engine Results Page?
A search engine results page (abbreviated SERP) is a webpage that displays the results of a query of a search engine website. In other words, when you type something into Google and it shows you a page with the results, that is the search engine results page.
Main Features
What the search engine results page looks like depends on the search engine and, in the case of complex search engines, on the query typed into the search box. In its simplest form, the SERP is merely a list of results ranked from the most relevant to the least relevant according to the search engine's algorithms. For web search, each result will also be a link to a webpage.
Each result in a results page may have several elements indicating various properties of that result. For an example, see What Each Part of a Search Result Means on Google.
A search engine may also include all sorts of information in its results page that don't conform to the simple list format.
In particular, the most popular web search engines are also able to do math. If you type 2 + 2
in the search box, they will show a calculator displaying the result of the equation: "4."
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