Question

Cora is using a search engine to find organic results. What's she looking for?

A. Commercial sites
B. Non-paid for search results
C. Social media sites
D. Sites that do not contain GMOs

Answer 1

Search results can be divided into two types: paid and organic. Paid search results are basically advertisements that are associated with the keywords you searched for – for example when searching sports, the first option you find is an advertisement linking you to a website selling sport shoes. This differs from organic search results which are basically (B) non-paid for search results, which will come up when people who searched for a keyword consistently clicked on your link.

Answer 2

B. Non-paid for search results

A search engine will provide both organic and paid results. Organic results are those based on relevance to the search, while paid results have been engineered to appear in certain searches based on SEO words. Organic results are usually more beneficially to those persons who are performing research.