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search on the internet

16,960,000 results on the web

search the internet

113,500,000 results on the web

More popular!

It doesn't look like this phrase is very popular! The search could not find any examples on the internet.

You can search the internet or watch dramas, it's often shown there.
I gather from a brief search on the Internet that you're the best detective in my immediate vicinity.
Browse and search the Internet Archive's vast media collection.
don't use your mobile phone, don't use your laptop, don't search the Internet, don't be on I.M.
Browse and search the Internet Archive's vast media collection.
So they're restrictive
Maybe we go inside and search the Internet for funny videos of squirrels waterskiing.
So you can search the Internet, take videos, whatever.