Search Engine Flashcards
being a __________ of information is one of the key features of the internet
VAST SEA
is a software system designed to
Search the internet for documents related to
The keyword or search word used or entered into the system
SEARCH ENGINE
users are able to maximize the potential of search engines by learning the proper searching protocols
SEARCH ENGINE
Different Search Engines
BING
BAIDU
ASK
DuckDuckGo
Internet Archive
Aoi.
Yahoo
Yandex
it uses a spider or a crawler to search the internet
CRAWLER-BASED SEARCH ENGINE
digs through individual web pages,pull out keywords,and then adds the pages to the search engine’s database
CRAWLER-BASED SEARCH ENGINE
google and Yahoo are its example
CRAWLER-BASED SEARCH ENGINE
depend on human editors to create their listings or database
DIRECTORIES
There are two types of directories
(1) Academic and professional directories
(2) Commercial and Portal directories
are often created and maintained by subject
Experts to support the needs of researchers
academic and professional directories
cater to the general public and are competing for internet traffic
Commercial and Portal directories
Uses both crawler based searches and directory searches to obtain their results.
HYBRID SERACH ENGINE
transmit user supplied keywords simultaneously to several individual search engines to carry out the search
META SEARCH ENGINE
In this type of search engine, duplicate can be eliminated and Clustering by subjects within search is implemented
META SEARCH ENGINE
HOW TO SEARCH THE INTERNET EFFECTIVELY
1.Use of keywords
2. Use of phrase
3. Capitalization
4.Boolean logic
5.Wildcards and truncation