Search engines around the world

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beckettisdogg
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Search engines around the world

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When we search for information using well-known search engines such as google and yahoo,

we do not have to provide a password and/or login to search for information in their database.

I always believed that whenever you wanted to search for information in a database, providing a login and a password was mandatory.

how does that happen?
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Christopher
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The web application (usually) needs to provide the database server with some credentials to connect to it. That is separate from the anything that is provided to the server by the browser. Most popular websites access data in databases to create their web pages -- not just search engines.
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