Like the rest of the world, people in Japan rely on search engines every day to tap the ocean of information that is the World Wide Web.
But despite the familiarity of Google, Yahoo and other popular search engines, what goes on behind the scenes once we enter our search terms is less understood by the general public.
Even more befuddling is the question of just how these online services manage to locate and index Web sites written in the three scripts used in Japanese.
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