Monday, January 17, 2011

Final Review 1: Search Tools

Internet Search Tools
  • The World Wide Web is enormous.
  • People created search tools to navigate it.
  • The search query tells the search tool what you are looking for.
  • There are 4 kinds of search tools:
    • Search Engines
      • Crawls the web using spiders
    • Metasearch Engines
      • Search multiple search engines at once
    • Subject Guides/Web Directores
      • Offer a hierarchically organized directory to help you find relevant search results
    • Specialty Search Tools/Databases
      • Search the deep/hidden web.

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