What's the difference between organic vs. paid results?

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Organic search result is the Web page listings that most closely match the user’s search query based on importance. Also called “natural” search results, ranking high in the organic results is what seo is all about and paid result are basically advertisements — the Web site owners have paid to have their Web pages display for certain keyword so these listings show up when someone runs a search query containing those keywords.

Paid results A type of contextual advertising where Web site owners have paid to have their Web pages display for certain keywords, Some search engines will make it easy for users to determine which search results are natural and which are paid,