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A page of resources for teaching about Search Engines and effectively searching the Internet
Updated on Apr 22, 08
Created on Apr 22, 08
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Seventeen lesson course on the various aspects of Search Engines and how to use them effectively to find information on the web. Site maintained by University of South Carolina Beaufort Library.\n\nSpecial lessons on: Google, Dogpile, Ask, Clusty, Gigablast, LiveSearch, and Yahoo! Search.
We all love Google and probably will also go there first, but my students are finding some nice feature to other search engines. They are worth checking out so I will highlight the features of one type of search engine in each post. Individual Search engines compile their own database of web pages.\n\n Ask debuted in 2001 and was purchased by Ask Jeeves later that year.
Metasearch engines do not crawl the web compiling their own searchable databases. Instead, they search the databases of multiple sets of individual search engines simultaneously, from a single site and using the same interface.
Comparision chart of Search Engines: individual, meta, subject directory, portal, library gateway, subject-specific databases
Subject directories, unlike search engines, are created and maintained by human editors, not electronic spiders or robots. The editors review and select sites for inclusion in their directories on the basis of previously determined selection criteria. The resources they list are usually annotated.
6 items | 21 visits
A page of resources for teaching about Search Engines and effectively searching the Internet
Updated on Apr 22, 08
Created on Apr 22, 08
Category: Computers & Internet
URL: