A searchable database of web pages indexed by keyword
Examples of the major search engines
presentation to EPICUG by Mike Molloy
What is a web search engine?
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A searchable database of web pages indexed by keyword |
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Examples of the major search engines |
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What is a web directory?
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A search site on the Web that catalogs Web sites by subject and also manually indexes the site, providing a brief description of its content. Yahoo! is the most well-known directory site. |
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Examples: Yahoo, Open Directory Project (dmoz) |
What is a web meta-search engine?
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A search engine that gets its results by searching results from other search engines. |
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Examples of the major meta-search engines |
What about other search tools?
| News search |
| Specialty search engines |
| Multimedia search engines |
| Search Utilities |
| Paid Listings search engines |
| Kids search engines |
| Regional search engines |
| Reference tools: Refdesk, YourDictionary, Bartleby, Infoplease |
| Other stuff: Recipes, Lyrics, Words, Maps, Phone numbers, Acronyms, Urban legends, Viruses, etc. |