Qué significa la palabra 'Búsqueda'?

Here's an example of where it's used.
://www.google.com/intl/es/

This does't seem to be conjugation of buscar, and also I wonder if it
has any connection to the word queda, meaing 'it stays'or 'it fits'.

Also, is the sentence I wrote above grammatically correct.
Would a short for it: Qué significa 'Búsqueda'? be correct.

Also, what is the name of the upside down question mark (in english
and spanish) and how can I type it on a standard keyboard?

Hi!!

Búsqueda is a noun and means search, it is related to the verb buscar
(which is its root) and the spanish definition is: "acción de buscar"
(the act of searching).

Regarding the question marks the "?" the english name is question mark
and the upside down one "¿" is an opening question mark (in spanish
signos de interrogación de apertura, that is the name with I know it).
In spanish both marks are used; the opening to start the question and
the other to close the question.

There are also two exclamation marks used in spanish "!" and "¡"
(opening and closing exclamation marks)

To write them use the following:
ALT + 168 = ¿
ALT + 173 = ¡

The phrase "Qué significa Búsqueda?" is well written but you forgot
the opening question mark ¿ .


Hope the this helps. Feel free to request for a clarification if you
find this answer unclear and/or incomplete.

Regards.
livioflores-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by patrice29-ga on 26 Apr 2005 12:07 PDT

Is the first sentence also written well?
¿Qué significa la palabra 'Búsqueda'?

Patrice29

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Clarification of Answer by livioflores-ga on 26 Apr 2005 13:05 PDT

Hi!!

¿Qué significa la palabra 'Búsqueda'? is also well written, and it is
a more polite way to ask this question, the only observation that I
can do is that you do not need the quotes and the capital initial
letter in the word búsqueda to ask that.

Hope this helps, and please do not hesitate to continue using the
clarification feature until you feel that this question is well
answered.

Regards.
livioflores-ga

Just an additional tidbit:
In Microsoft Word, the opening question mark is referred to as the
inverted question mark and a handy shortcut to type it in Word is
ctrl+alt+?.
Same with the inverted exclamation mark: ctrl+alt+!.
Regards,
IndexTurret