{"id":5137,"date":"2012-04-12T12:20:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T12:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/link2city.com\/dev\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:21:51","slug":"how-search-engines-work-and-why-it-matters-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/link2city.com\/dev\/how-search-engines-work-and-why-it-matters-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How Search Engines Work, and Why it Matters To You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>How Search Engines Work, and Why it Matters To You?<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything\u2026and that is by making the other person WANT to do it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><strong>Dale Carnegie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how Dale Carnegie said it back in 1937 in How To Win Friends &amp; Influence People\u2014of the best known motivational books in history. 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