People wonder what exactly search engine are and how they created a vast impact to the study skills of its users? The search engine is a software system designed to search web based information and to identify items in a database that correspond to the keywords specified by users. It is indispensable tools for finding web based information also a beneficial tool for students and faculty in making their academic papers and other purposes.
In 1990, the first fundamental search engine named Archie was created by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan and J. Peter Deutsch, a computer science student from McGill University. It was generated a searchable database of file names on FTP sites. Since Archie was introduced before the internet was detracted a large scale basis, its database has a few public filenames to search manually. Archie was evolved into Veronica and Jughead after the Gopher protocol was launched. It was created by Mark McCahill at the University of Minnesota in 1991. In this year until 1993, the web was starting to change. In response to this change, the World Wide Web Wanderer was created and launched by student of MIT Matthew Gray. The wanderer was the first full text crawler. This software system was a series of boot used to search and list on database called Wandex. It was considered as the beginning for the modern search engines we use today (Admin, March 22, 2012).
During 1998, two search engines were existed before the Direct Hit was introduced, the Alta Vista – author controlled services, and Look Smart – editor-controlled directories. Direct Hit used relevancy, which relied on the hit ratio, and to compute search engine placement. Furthermore, Google and Yahoo were search engines uses page rank which monitors the number of...
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Various web-based companies have developed techniques to document their customer’s data, enabling them to provide a more enhanced web experience. One such method called “cookies,” employs Microsoft’s web browser, Internet Explorer. It traces the user’s habits. Cookies are pieces of text stored by the web browser that are sent back and forth every time the user accesses a web page. These can be tracked to follow web surfers’ actions. Cookies are used to store the user’s passwords making your life easier on banking sites and email accounts. Another technique used by popular search engines is to personalize the search results. Search engines such as Google sell the top search results to advertisers and are only paid when the search results are clicked on by users. Therefore, Google tries to produce the most relevant search results for their users with a feature called web history. Web history h...
Most users will find what they are looking for the first times when conducting searches due to the database sufficiently being able to decode natural language. As users navigate through the website they will find many icons and tabs to help them through their searches. One does not have to be an expert to conduct searches using this database and will be able to use the simple search index to retrieve a desirable number of sources if the user knows exactly what they are trying to retrieve. This database would be an essential tool for students, teachers, or any patron to meet their informational
Search engine industry is built on finding out and also aggresive advertising. As we know there are five major competitors in this industry competing with Google. The competition is strong because they are targeting the same market, presenting similar business and technologies. The five major competitors are Yahoo!, MSN, Baidu, Bing, and AOL.
In the section “Deportation Policy and the Making and Unmaking of Illegal Aliens,” Mya Ngai unravels the history of deportation while revealing society’s role in determining who was considered an illegal alien. Ngai explains how deportation has existed since the colonial times; but, in the nineteenth century, America rejected the principle due to immigrants being crucial for settlement and industrialization. This lead to the rise of unwanted individuals, such as Chinese laborers, paupers, and polygamists, who were considered “contaminants of social degeneracy” (59). Consequently, the first federal restriction on entry was passed by Congress in 1875 and it banned individuals who were convicted of “crimes involving moral turpitude” and prostitution,
By being in the online market since long time, it has become important in educating self to remain updated with the latest search engine algorithms.
In today’s fast paced technology, search engines have become vastly popular use for people’s daily routines. A search engine is an information retrieval system that allows someone to search the...
Search Engine Optimization is an effective process of pleasing the search engine crawlers or bots. Different strategies, tactics and techniques deployed to attract the search engines to index and rank the web pages well. The prime goal of doing SEO for a website is to increase the traffic to a website through better exposure in search engine results page (SERP).
The objective of this essay is to compare Internet research with other sources of information which include books, word of mouth and primary research. This paper will also look at ways of ascertaining the validity of research information for academic work.
Search engines, specifically Google, have probably contributed more to the distribution of knowledge than any other invention since the creation of the printing press. Google was created by Larry Page and Serge...
The search parameters were adjusted a number of times to filter and narrow the amount of articles displaying. Once the top five most relevant articles were found, the articles were appraised and were chosen to support the question as evidence.
Search engines have many capabilities from using key words or phrases to find what you are looking for to using general statements to browse the web. But what exactly is a search engine? Search engines are huge databases of web page files that have been assembled automatically by machine. There are two types of search engines. One type is the individual search engine. This type of search engine compiles its information on to its own database making it accessible when you use that particular engine. It does not use any other engine?s information to help with your search. Then there are the meta-searchers which do not have their own databases. They use a combination of individual search engine?s information simultaneously, from a single site and using the same interface. Meta-searchers provide a quick way of finding out which engines are retrieving the best results for you in your search. There are two ways that Meta-searchers show their results. Most use a single list which display multiple-engine search results in a single merged list and had removed all the duplicate entries from the list. The second way that they display their results is through multiple lists. These are separate lists in which are displayed as they are received from each engine leaving the duplicate entries on the list.
An information retrieval system (IRS) is the activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need for a collection of information resources. Searches can be based on metadata or on full text (or content based) indexing. The automated information retrieval system is used to reduce what has been called “information overload”. Many universities and public libraries use information retrieval system to provide access to books, journals, and other documents. Web search engines are the most visible information retrieval application.
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The traditional education environment is starting to implement new ways to teach students with the rapid development of technology. One strategy is the use of the internet to communicate, listen, and share ideas among students and professors alike; specifically the use of the internet realm in wikis, blogs, and podcasts. Blogs are either a website in itself or a part of a website where something like an interactive journal is being used; a person can write about anything they wish, link or show images, and decide whether other people can comment on the blog entry. Wikis are websites or webpages dedicated to providing information about a topic and can be edited by either the members of that site. Podcasts are digital files in the form of audio, video, or both that can be downloaded online onto computers, MP3 players, certain phones, and many more devices. Wikis, blogs, and podcasts could positively alter the educational format of lectures for students.