Question

What is the difference between surfing and searching?

Answer 1

Browsing means searching for something specific while surfing means randomly searching for something. Surfing is time consuming than browser because in surfing you have to read out lot of pages to get the desired result. ... Browsing can be compared to window shopping, no intention to purchase is implied.

Answer 2

Difference between surfing and searching:

Surfing:

Surfing means just browsing some web pages and websites.

Surfing doesn’t have specific goals whereas searching has some specific goal. Examples of surfing can be looking for any websites such as amazon through any web browser such as google chrome or Mozilla Firefox or internet explorer etc.

Searching:

Searching means searching for some pieces of information on different search engines.

Example of searching any be searching for any information through any search engines such as Google or Yahoo etc.