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Search Engines

“A search engine is a tool that enables users to locate information on the World Wide Web. Search engines use key words or phrases entered by users to find Web sites which contain the information sought” (www.getnetwise.org/glossary.php). It can be considered a modernized library card catalogue. Search engines are the primary use for the internet. It's important to understand that search engines do not search the internet itself. They rely on spiders or robots to search databases of information through the internet which the company hosting the search engine has developed (http://www.cln.org/searching_faqs.html). The most popular search engines are Google, Yahoo, Excite, HotBot, AltaVista, Lycos and LookSmart.

There a few essential concepts to understand about search engines. Since they do not search the internet, one might be curious to know how search engines obtain their results for users. When a publisher creates a document that he wants posted on the web, he can register it with different search engines. This is how users find his webpage in their results. The second way that documents are registered to search engines is if the company finds it as part of its research routines. All search engines are intended to accomplish the same duty, although each engine goes about this duty in various ways. “Components that affect the results consist of size of the database, frequency of updating, and the search capabilities. Search engines also digress in their search speed, way in which they arrange their results, and measure of assistance they grant” (http://www.ouc.bc.ca/libr/connect96/search.htm). There is also what we call a “meta” search engine. These search engines allow the user to search multiple databases...

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