What are organic search results?

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Organic search results are the non-paid results that appear on a search engine results page because the engine judges them to be relevant to your query. They’re ranked by the search algorithm based on factors like relevance, quality of content, and trust signals, not by payment. This is what you see when you scroll through the results that aren’t labeled as ads. The other options aren’t fitting: being on databases isn’t what makes a result organic, scholarly pages aren’t required for a result to be organic, and organic results are meant to be the most relevant, not the least relevant.