Searching+Assignment

=Vocabulary for searching=

Use google to define the following words: define:word

query search engine case sensitive Boolean database



= WHAT ARE SEARCH ENGINES? = An Internet software program that creates huge databases of web documents. Search engines send out "spiders" or "robots" to crawl through web files and index them. Examples:[| Google], [|AltaVista]. Note:: No search engine indexes the entire web. · Not all search engines are updated in a timely manner.

= WHAT ARE SEARCH DIRECTORIES? =

A special kind of file used to organize other files into a hierarchical structure. Internet directories begin with broad categories and become more specific as you descend in to the hierarchical list. Examples: [|Librarians' Index to the Internet], [|Yahoo], [|Looksmart], [|Yahooligans], [|KidsClick].

= WHAT ARE METASEARCH ENGINES? =

A search engine that searches multiple search engines simultaneously. Examples: [|Dogpile], [|Ixquick], [|Vivisimo]. = HOW DO SEARCH ENGINES WORK? =

Search engines create their databases using "spiders" or "robots" to find words from page to page and link to link. It basically searches for every word, link, image, and video. Some people who make websites will ask websearch engines to search their sites so that they will be searched. Not everything online is available as it changes by the second.

Whenever you put words in a search field, you are then looking through the index and getting the websites that have those items on them. . >  = =

=Searching Using Google=

=Parts of Google Search Results=

Use the link to learn about the 4 main parts of google's results page.