Wednesday, May 23, 2007

week 9 Using search engines

eahMain points








  • There are two main categories that search tools fall into and they are search engines and directories.






  • A search engine is a web-based application






  • There are many types of search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Altavista, Alltheweb and many more.






  • Search engines do contain many problems such as return of too many results, limited relevance or quality filtering of results to a search query, misuse of page scoring/ ranking system, including of current “broken” links in a list of results to a query, determining how deep to “tunnel” through lower ranked pages and building enormous indices that include erroneous, irrelevant and out-dated results to user.












  • Keyword Searching, this is any word on a web page.



  • Refining your search.



  • Relevancy Ranking



  • Meta Tags





This Quiz was fun.

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